People who lack material wealth, who are poor, won't be very happy. They will be obsessed with meeting their bills at pay day. And people who have an abundance of material goods are often not happy.

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.

The hidden secret you are hiding is unbearable. The strength to come out is unbelievable. The joy once you come out is incredible. The relief I felt after coming out was life changing.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

The day Blink-182 announced their hiatus, I felt as if a part of me died.

...don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

I am an artist, not a dressmaker.

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.