“What’s Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.”

Entrepreneurs start businesses because … they have no choice. Passion and energy drive them on good days and sustain them on bad days

Only Experience Teaches You: You can’t learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.

I have never been much of a follower although I like to learn.

For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I’d go into a shoot, there’d be all these dresses, and I’d say to myself, ‘Okay, this isn’t me. It’s somebody else. So, who is this person?’ Acting is the next level of that.

And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.

The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.

I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don’t understand computers.