Sales forecast — An estimate of sales for a given period of time, like summer, or the next fiscal year.

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

Presale

Psychographics

Public Relations

Publicity

Sales quota

On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.

It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.

New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.

It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Every coin has two sides just like most people have two faces.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them glory and danger alike and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it.

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

Oh my gosh, I would love to guest star on 'Entourage.'

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

EVERY WEIRD THING ABOUT YOU IS BEAUTIFUL AND MAKES LIFE INTERESTING.