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My tweet on Tennis match fixing by the referee

ITF wake up on match fixing. Pakistan shocked as Davis Cup tie “gifted” to New Zealand | Sport | DAWN.COM http://dawn.com/2013/04/06/pakistan-shocked-as-davis-cup-tie-gifted-to-@dawn_com

Consumers believe one another more than they believe in companies. The rise of social media is simply a reflection of the migration of consumers’ trusts from companies to other consumers.

# in Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit

Marketing’s job is to convert societal needs into profitable opportunities.—Anonymous

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.—Jonathan Swift

Adversity is opportunity in disguise.—Old saying

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.—Dennis Gabor

“Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.”

― Philip Kotler

“Marketing is a race without a finishing line”

― Philip Kotler

Famous quote of Philip Kotler

“The future is not ahead of us. It has already happened.
Unfortunately, it is unequally distributed among companies, industries, and nations.”

Quotes……Politicians

We hang petty thieves and
appoint the bigger thieves to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics
are punished by being governed
by those who are dumber.
~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
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Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge
even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
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When I was a boy
I was told that anybody could become PM;
I’m beginning to believe it.
~Quoted in ‘Clarence Darrow for the Defense’ by Irving Stone.
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Politicians are people who,
when they see light at the end of the tunnel,
go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton, American actor/writer
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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich,
by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer, “the Mark Twain of American Socialism.”
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I offered my opponents a deal: “if they stop telling lies about me,
I will stop telling the truth about them”.
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..
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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman
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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician
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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)
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I am reminded of a joke:
What happens if a politician drowns in a river?
That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown?
That is solution ….!!!

Daily the News today reports that “NAB denies it declared Sharifs defaulters”.
Many congratulations to the Sharif brothers and PMLN on the vindication of their position.

The silence of CT CM Punjab

My Tweet Message to Dalai Lama

@nayyarahmad: @dalailama Entire Muslim community commiserate with u & Buddhists community over the death of 8 Buddhists in detention Center violence in Indonesia.