America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.

You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

Make your company stock a consumer product. When consumers buy stock in your company, they'll never buy a competitive product. You've linked their financial future to yours.

This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.

If the vision is there, the means will follow.