All companies have many opportunities. Strategy is about allocation of resources and priorities.

Looks do count. Deliver visually stunning merchandising. Engage at the point of sale. Help consumers shop with their eyes.

Our most exciting discoveries come from studying anomalies. The once-in-1000 occurrence is worth getting detail on.

Functional goods sold en masse earn a good return but breakthrough profits come from satisfying emotional needs.

I admire many entrepreneurs. They bring energy, excitement, youthful enthusiasm. What they lack in process, they make up for in gumption.

Respond to your customer's dissatisfactions with precision and power.

The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness.

Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.

Completely understand the customer by seeking an intense, complete and empathetic understanding.

Don't ask your customers what they want. This rule is based on the view that they probably don't know. You have to fully understand them, the context for their needs and their major dissatisfactions.

Consumers are time constrained, budget restricted and less loved than they would like. Give them a wonderful experience and they will share it. Capture their soul and win big time.

Youth lasts much longer than young people think.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

So many kids are fat drug addicts these days, it's almost as if Rush Limbaugh had puppies.

All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes