Leaders such as Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others promulgated a vision and a moving story of how their people could achieve a great purpose.

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.

If people aren't able to see your magnificence that's their loss, not yours.

Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I’d been on combat missions. 217 days. And I’m still paying the price for every one of those days.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.