Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.

Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.

Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.

We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.

Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

Life is made up of dots

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams, and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way.

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.