Friday, June 25, 2010

Marketing And Media Quotes 8

"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work." Booker T. Washington

"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself." Nelson Mandela

"Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe." Peter Drucker

"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have." Joyce Brothers

"Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy." Joseph Campbell

"Never spend your money before you have it." Thomas Jefferson

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance." Abraham Lincoln

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." Arnold H. Glasgow

"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait." Ellen Metcalf

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising." Mark Twain

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." Herman Cain

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do." Helen Keller

"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day." Marian Wright Edelman

"The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers." John Egan

"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities." Edward Gibbon

"That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface." Robert T. Pirsig

"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." Tim May

"Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money." Ernst Levy

"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne." Quentin Crisp

"Home is not where you live but where they understand you." Christian Morgenstern

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison

"There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer." Peter Drucker

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." Hans Christian Anderson

"Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." James Thurber

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." Don Marquis

"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar." Abraham Lincoln

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Berthold Auerbach

"The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead." Robert Brault

"I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things." George Robert Gissing

"Action is eloquence." William Shakespeare

Marketing And Media Quotes 7

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle

"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." Steve Jobs

"Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight." Jalal Uddin Rumi

"You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure." Henry Ford

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." Demosthenes

"We must eat to live, and not live to eat." Henry Fielding

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself." Peter F. Drucker

"People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible." Tom Vilsack

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix

"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress." Herbert Hoover

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." Sam Walton

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." Elbert Hubbard

"Research is creating new knowledge." Neil Armstrong

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle." Ken Hakuta

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough." Jeffrey Kalmikoff

"Always be closing...That doesn't mean you're always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always closing on the next step in the process." Shane Gibson

"If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!" Sasha Azevedo

"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be." George Sheehan

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." Rita Mae Brown

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." Buddha

"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?" Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future." Victor Hugo

"Business today consists in persuading crowds." Gerald Stanley Lee

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." Albert Einstein

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." David Rockefeller

"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure." Sven Goran Eriksson

"If you can laugh together, you can work together." Robert Orben

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Marketing And Media Quotes 6

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it." William Arthur Ward

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." Robert Collier

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." Albert Einstein

"It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it." Gerard Patrick Roeling

"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." Anton Chekhov

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." Peter Drucker

"You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place." David Ogilvy

"Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image." David Ogilvy

"If you don't believe in your product, or if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work." Jay Levinson

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself." Peter F. Drucker

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." Will Durant

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle

"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." Steve Jobs

"Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight." Jalal Uddin Rumi

"You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure." Henry Ford

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." Demosthenes

"We must eat to live, and not live to eat." Henry Fielding

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself." Peter F. Drucker

"People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible." Tom Vilsack

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix

"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress." Herbert Hoover

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." Sam Walton

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." Elbert Hubbard

"Research is creating new knowledge." Neil Armstrong

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle." Ken Hakuta

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough." Jeffrey Kalmikoff

"Always be closing...That doesn't mean you're always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always closing on the next step in the process." Shane Gibson

Monday, April 5, 2010

Marketing And Media Quotes 5

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." Edward de Bono

"No one knows what he can do till he tries." Publius Syrus

"Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want." Bill Sands

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." Frank Herbert

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle

"Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there." Norman Vincent Peale

"Motivation gets you going and habit get you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get thee more quickly and have more fun on the trip." Zig Ziglar

"The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard" Helen Gurley Brown

"Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don't simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work." Win Borden

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth." Peter F. Drucker

"Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive." Donald Trump

"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be." David Ogilvy

"Keep your thinking right and your business will be right." Zig Ziglar

"The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity." Margaret J. Wheatley

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." Sir Winston Churchill

"Strive for excellence, not perfection." H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion." Donald Trump

"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner." Zig Ziglar

"All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do." Zig Ziglar

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising." Mark Twain

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." Eddie Robinson

"Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret....to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink." Leo Burnett

"Advertising is the life of trade." Calvin Coolidge

"What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form." David Ogilvy

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison

"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power." Brian Tracy

"You can have the best product or service in the world, but if people don't buy - it's worthless. So in reality it doesn't matter how wonderful your new product or service is. The real question is - will they buy it?" Noel Peebles

"The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it." Sergio Zyman

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it." William Arthur Ward

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Marketing And Media Quotes 4

"Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing." P Barnum

"You create your opportunities by asking for them." Patty Hansen

"The pride of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." Vincent Thomas Lombardi

"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it." Mack R. Douglas

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." Warren G. Bennis

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." Peter F. Drucker

"What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it." David Ogilvy

"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them." Warren G. Bennis

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results. Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." Napolean Hill

"There are no speed limits on the road to success." David W. Johnson

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." Sir Francis Bacon

"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected." George Soros

"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury." Coco Chanel

"Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind." Walter Landor

"The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time." Thomas Jefferson

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe." Anatole France

"Always aim for achievement, and forget about success." Helen Hayes

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." Anaïs Nin

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." Ray Bradbury

"Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it." Oliver Herford

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." Benjamin Franklin

"The past is not a package one can lay away." Emily Dickinson

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." Harold Wilson

"About 70% of customers' buying decisions are based on positive human interactions with sales staff. The bottom line is that people buy from people, not companies." Lee J. Colan

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz

"The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work." Agha Hasan Abedi

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas Gandhi

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." Ralph Marston

"Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together." John A. Morrison

"They who lose today may win tomorrow." Cervantes

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Marketing And Media Quotes 3

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." Oprah Winfrey

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything." George Lois

"The only source of knowledge is experience." Albert Einstein

"It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive." Nicholas Johnson

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." Alexander Graham Bell

"An entrepreneur can become moderately successful doing the same thing that everyone else does. But if you want to be wildly successful, you have to do what no one else has done." Tim Gill

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King Jr.

"Ideas without action are worthless." Harvey Mackay

"I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things." Franz Kafka

"Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film. They advertise memories." Theodore Parker

"In the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organisation...she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store." Giorgio Armani

"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business." Warren Buffett

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." Rita Mae Brown

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." Irving Berlin

"The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers." Sir John Egan

"An idea can turn to dust or magic depending on the talent that rubs against it." William Bernbach

"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can not get them across, your ideas will not get you anywhere." Lee Iacocca

"Advertising says to people, "Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it." Leo Burnett

"If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!" Sasha Azevedo

"This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back." John Ilhan

"The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell." Jay Abraham

"When people aren't having any fun they seldom produce good advertising." David Ogilvy

"As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work." Sergey Brin

"The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling." Stuart Wilde

"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking." Anita Roddick

"If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income." Jay Abraham

"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts." Richard Branson

"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming." Richard Branson

"Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief." Leo Burnett

"Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying and understanding customer needs and creating solutions that deliver satisfaction to the customers, profits to the producers and benefits for the stakeholders." Philip Kotler

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Marketing And Media Quotes 2

"The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace." David Ogilvy

"In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . ." John Wanamaker

"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive." John Sladek

"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." Cecil B. DeMille

"No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part." Tiger Woods

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All men by nature desire knowledge." Aristotle

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." J. K. Rowling

"Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read." Leo Burnett

"If you want to be happy, be." Leo Tolstoy

"Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities." Napoleon Bonaparte

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." Diogenes Laertius

"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." Swami Sivananda

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." Benjamin Disraeli

"We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become." Earl Nightingale

"Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people." David J. Schwartz

"I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build." John D. Rockefeller

"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement." Samuel Johnson

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." Whitney M. Young, Jr.

"You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions." Adlin Sinclair

"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." Barack Obama

"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference." Barack Obama

"Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated." Paul Rand

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do." Samuel Butler

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires." Abigail Van Buren

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." Norman Vincent Peale

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." Andy Warhol

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." Oprah Winfrey