The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
Effective management always means asking the right question.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
I'm just here to spray and pray.
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.