Today's smart marketers don't sell products; they sell benefit packages. They don't sell purchase value only; they sell use value.

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

A country's middle class is its bedrock.

Every business is a service business. Does your service put a smile on the customer's face?

Today you have to run faster to stay in place.

Most of the productivity gains appear to go to the top 1 percent. Most people don't have enough income and as a result, they borrow additional money by using their credit card and they fall into high debt. The result of the growing income gap is a slower growing GDP (too few people with money to spend) and a rising tide of indebtedness.

One of the major causes of poverty is a lack of family planning. Governments and nonprofit organizations need to encourage poor people to use birth control so that they don't have unexpected babies, which will only make poorer families poorer.