Presale — The act of influencing potential customers to buy before the product is actually available.

What are the main responsibilities of the marketing department?

Advertising

Brand

Brand loyalty

Commission

Competitive advantage

Demographics

Elastic demand

focus group

Image

Inelastic demand

Markdown

Market

Market research

Marketing mix

Marketing Plan

Niche

Personal selling

Psychographics

Public Relations

Publicity

Sales forecast

Sales quota

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

I don't have any kids of my own.

While I am very grateful for the role social media plays in my ability to interact so personally with my fans, I also see time and time again how it negatively affects social relationships of the younger generation.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

If I'm doing my hair myself, I just wash it and let it naturally dry. I'm actually quite good at doing hair; if I wear it up I usually do it myself.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.

Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began.

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.