Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market ...
Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.
You're much better off to buy fresh fish from a market as opposed to buying something that's been frozen and processed and covered in breadcrumbs.
For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.
I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
