A business based on brand is, very simply, a business primed for success.

Brand is everything, the stuff you want to communicate to consumers and the stuff you communicate despite yourself.

The truth is the best brands, like the most interesting people, have a keen sense of self.

Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.

Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.

A strong brand is the only thing that can tip the balance of power between distributors and a manufacturer back into the manufacturer's favor.

Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

Do not allow your enemy to define you. Because if you allow yourself to be defined negatively, nothing positive you say about yourself will register.

It's not fair, but it's not entirely wrong to presume that the more capable people will come from the better brand.

While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

The real lesson Orville (Redenbacher) taught me was the power of a good brand to trump all rhyme or reason in the marketplace.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

There's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it cain't be done from a horse.

It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.

When I think about my Glamazon, would that character get down if someone said her thighs were heavy? No, she knows what other people think is none of her damn business.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.