Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.

The art of marketing is the art of brand building. If you arenot a brand, you are a commodity. Then price is everything and the low-cost producer is the only winner.

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.

Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.

There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.

It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them.

It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.

The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products.

Companies pay too much attention to the cost of doing something. They should worry more about the cost of not doing it.

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

Children are a gift from God.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.