Simple Inspirational Quotes
Inspirations for Business and Life
"Marketing is a spectator sport and we can learn from the big brands as they set the stage." ~ Jim Joseph.
"If SEX did not exist, then a marketing executive would have had to invent it." ~ unknown
"Branding happens before marketing or selling; it's their source. Without a strong brand, marketing is generally ineffective and selling is like beating your head against the wall of sales resistance. A strong brand is the rock-solid foundation for all marketing, because every other aspect of a product's identity - its logo, how its ads are written, who its spokesperson is - is based on that brand. Branding is the reason customers consider a product in the first place." ~ Peter Montoya
"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself." ~ Peter Druker
"The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important." ~ Abraham Maslow
"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better." ~ Jeff Bezos
"Sometimes only a change in viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity." ~ Alberta Flanders
"Selling is, reduced to its essence, solving another person's problems." ~ Keith Ferrazzi
"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited." ~ Napoleon Hill
"[Branding truth] - your visibility is more important than your ability." ~ Peter Montoya
"Brands are not rational. Branding is about emotion. People choose you because you "feel" right." ~ Peter Montoya
"The most successful business leaders are often experts in emotions." ~ Chip Conley
"Marketing without design is lifeless and design without marketing is mute. Both need to be done well and done on a consistent, ongoing basis in order to facilitate and grow a business. "~ Von Glitschka
"We sell, or else." ~ David Ogilvy
"Listen carefully: you never learn a thing while your mouth is open." ~ Jonathan M. Tisch
"Due to enormous shifts in technology and consumer behavior, customers want a new approach that cuts through the clutter: marketing that is truly, inherently useful." ~ Jay Bauer
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." ~ Napoleon Hill
"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." ~ Napoleon Hill
"When people use your brand as a VERB, that is remarkable." ~ Meg Whitman
"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best." ~ Napoleon Hill
"Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys." ~ William George Jordan
"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." ~ John Wanamaker
"Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not just slapping on the marketing function as a last-minute add-on, but also understanding from the outset that if your offering itself isn't remarkable, then it's invisible — no matter how much you spend on well-crafted advertising." ~ Seth Godin, The Purple Cow"