My Quotes
After adding a few posts of quotes that I’ve found and emulate what my perspective is on marketing, I decided to add a page of just quotes that I love. Enjoy!
“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”
-Brian Tracy
“What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.”
-David Ogilvy
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”
-William Arthur Ward
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
-Aristotle
“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”
-Sir Winston Churchill
“If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”
-Zig Ziglar
“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
“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 fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.”
- Jay Abraham
“It’s a very, very tough market. So unless you do a really good job, you buy the right products from the manufacturers, you service the customer, they keep coming back, they bring their friends in, it’s all about numbers, numbers, numbers.
- John Ilhan
“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”
- Steve Jobs
“Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.”
- Jim Rohn
“Customers don’t always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren’t enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call “the third place”.. a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect.. they found we were filling a need they didn’t know they had.”
- Howard Schultz
“Words mean things.” – Rush Limbaugh
“Loving your customer boils down to one thing – creating an almost fanatic sense of loyalty in your customer such that they wouldn’t think of buying from anyone else.” – Brad Antin / CommonSenseMarketing.com
“Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.” – Samuel Johnson
“Every word, sentence, and headline should have one specific purpose – to lead your potential customer to your order page.” – Shelley Lowery
“Pain is temporary, quitting is forever…..” – Unknown Author
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
- Auguste Rodin
“Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.”
- Unknown Author
“The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.”
-Avinash Kaushik, in a Google Analytics video
“Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night” – David Ogilvy
“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one” – Henry Ford
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” - Thomas Jefferson