The art of marketing is the art of brand building. If you arenot a brand, you are a commodity. Then price is everything and the low-cost producer is the only winner.

The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

Marketing is becoming a battle based on information than on sales power.

Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.

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.

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.