In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. It must build trust and rapport. It must understand the customer's needs, and it must provide a product that delivers the promised benefits.

Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.

Anon.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Victor Hugo

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Thomas Paine

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Warren Bennis

She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.

Orson Scott Card

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Oliver North

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

Source Unknown

We are all alike on the inside

Mark Twain

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Charles Dickens

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

Henry David Thoreau