65th National Book Awards Quotes

#1. The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.

Marc Benioff

#2. A belief is not true because it is useful

Henri Frederic Amiel

#3. Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

Frances Wright

#4. Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

Ben Carson

#5. I am the Neelkanth!

Amish Tripathi

#6. A lot of improvisation ends up being about just thinking outside of the box in the scene. It's not improvisation as much as it is quickness or making it real.

Jason Sudeikis

#7. And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

Dat Phan

#8. The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.

Frederick Buechner

#9. TV is providing such amazing possibilities - you have such lively characters, fantastic stories and ambiguous messages, and viewers feel very satisfied.

Fedor Bondarchuk

#10. I'm going to go down swinging ... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

Andre Agassi