Commission — A fee paid to salesperson based on a percentage of the amount they sold. For example, real estate agents earn a commission of 3% of the value of the property they sold.

What are the main responsibilities of the marketing department?

Advertising

Brand

Brand loyalty

Competitive advantage

Demographics

Elastic demand

focus group

Image

Inelastic demand

Markdown

Market

Market research

Marketing mix

Marketing Plan

Niche

Personal selling

Presale

Psychographics

Public Relations

Publicity

Sales forecast

Sales quota

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

We have over 13 million people who supported my candidacy. And I have no doubt that there are some of those people who will not vote for Hillary Clinton.

Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

I'm incredibly naive.

My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

The right word may be effective but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

Do what you did in the beginning of the relationship and there wont be an end.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine

A strangers soul is like a dark forest.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.