There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
Most people involved in the music business, and it's probably not just the music business... aren't necessarily people that I like.
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.
We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.