Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.
You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.
We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception.
Could trying your hardest, but never being quite good enough ever be acceptable to anyone? Is that what your dreams are made of?
Moving continuously forward doesn’t necessarily get us to where we want to be, just somewhere other than where we started.
Customers do not want a lecture from you and they certainly don’t want some juvenile in a bad suit forcing his wares upon them
For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.
I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.
Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.
I'm very physical. I'm extremely active, and I would love to do something a little more sexy and dangerous, a la Sophia Loren, or funny and humorous, a la Woody Allen. Getting to do things along those lines would be extremely wicked and a dream come ...
What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, 'Oh my God, I can't walk in that!' It was like, three inches - they look like kitten heels now.
I used to work extremely hard and didn't really achieve a lot of tangible things. But when I started working extremely smart,the gates of abundant blessings opened up for me.
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me...
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
The free world cannot afford to accept any form of extremism, whether it is fascism, racism or religious extremism.
I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain.
Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.
If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
