"Marketing and innovation produce results; all the..." - Quote by Peter Drucker

“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”

“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.”

“What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.”

“Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.”

“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.”

“I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy, branding the department, marketing the department, marketing American values to the world and not just putting out pamphlets.”

“I see marketing not only as a vital skill for small business success, but more importantly, as a vehicle to create art and connect deeply with and serve others to make the world a better place.”

“Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.”