Marketing Miscellaney
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
- Joe Louis
"Business has only two basic functions – marketing and innovation."
- Peter Drucker
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think of you."
- John Wooden
"There are more fools among buyers than among sellers."
- French Proverb
"The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one."
- Italian Proverb
"Marketing deals with two important things: money and emotions."
- Didier Bonneville-Roussy
"If you be pungent, be brief. For it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed the deeper they burn."
- Robert Southey
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter."
- Blaise Pascal
"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."
- Samuel Goldwyn
"The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished."
- George Bernard Shaw
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I experience and I understand."
- Confucius
"If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack."
- Winston Churchill
"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble."
- Benjamin Franklin
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh
"A principle is not a principle until it costs you something."
- Bill Bernbach
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