The consumer is getting fed up with shoddy material, poor quality, unsafe products, bad service, weak warranties, lack of adequate information -- the whole gamut of such problems.

The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board.

We are born among relatives. Family is defined by loyalty.

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate

For me, as a 14-year-old aspiring to be in the NBA, I wanted to hear from players.

It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.