We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.

Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.

Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.

Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.

Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

Life is made up of dots

Youth is the last ride with fun, but the first one with responsability.

Know that you are divinely guided and watched over in every moment of every day.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.

Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.

Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.