"To those who are engaged in commercial..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.”

“He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.”

“What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.”

“I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.”

“The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.”

“Laws are inoperative in war”

“Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.”

“All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.”

“Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.”