If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.
The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal.
Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.
Sales and marketing need to be joined at the hip, and aligned around the customer.
Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't “get” that are part of the problem.
The war in Iraq has been very, very expensive - partly because the Administration tried to keep the apparent costs down. But the benefits have been elusive at best - partly because the ostensible reasons for going war were unconnected with reality - no weapons of mass destruction, no connections with 911.
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.