"I'm like a child who belongs to nobody."

“Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.”

“The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.”

“Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.”

Source : "Seven questions for Walter Russell Mead". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. January 16, 2010.

“The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.”

“I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, 'He should get used to it. That's the price to pay if you're getting $12m a movie'. If I'm getting paid $12m a movie I'd walk around naked. That's all nonsense. I don't know who makes that stuff up. Even the price for the first one was nonsense.”

“For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”

“Most of us have experienced wow moments. We just haven't taken time to think deeply about them.”

“In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.”

Source : Phil Dusenberry (2005). “Then We Set His Hair on Fire: Insights and Accidents from a Hall-of-fame Career in Advertising”, Portfolio (Hardcover)