The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal.

Sales and marketing need to be joined at the hip, and aligned around the customer.

Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.

Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't “get” that are part of the problem.

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent anything. There are two items on the menu: comedy and tragedy.

Family. A snug kind of word.

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.