The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. – Henry Louis Gates

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. – Hunter S. Thompson

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. – Honore de Balzac