“An idea doesn’t count if you can’t use it”

Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.

Marketing’s job is never done. It’s about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

Be where the world is going.

Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there’s a line of sight, and then it’s gone. There’s suddenly a new angle.

We seek to be as nimble as a startup.

B2B does not mean boring marketing.

Marketing is about innovation.

There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation.

Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate.

Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.

The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.

You can’t sell anything if you can’t tell anything.

Mind share before market share.

There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance’s worst nightmare

The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

I never used to take holidays and it would upset ex-wives and girlfriends, but working has me in a better mood than doing nothing.

Go ahead, take out your dong.’ ‘I’m not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong?

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

I’m a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.

To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.