Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
I think it is fair to say that the end goal might be a demand yet your focus when building brands should rarely focus on this objective.
Branding is not about what something says or what it means, but how it makes us feel.
Products are produced in the factory; brands are produced in our minds.
Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why.
New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats.
We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.
[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.
Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.
The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.
Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.