Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation.

What do Harley-Davidson, LEGO, and Apple have in common? They're all based on communities.

Imagine Pepsi without Coke. Impossible, right?

When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.

Products are produced in the factory; brands are produced in our minds.

Branding is not about what something says or what it means, but how it makes us feel.

Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why.

We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.

Brand handling synergy means developing and communicating your company's values and identity consistently.

A global brand building strategy is, in reality, a local plan for every market.

Brands must make use of the inclination of consumers to be persuaded by friends.

Soulful healing asks, while you are healing your body with herbs from Earth, that you look for the meaning in what is happening within your body as it relates to your whole being.

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.

I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game. They are the ones who face it every day.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.