Great Marketing Quotes

• What helps people, helps business.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

  Scott D. Cook

  Business, Media, Marketing

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• Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

  Beth Comstock

  Jobs, Business, Innovation

  "The quest for more creative, ambitious marketing - read the webchat again" by Matthew Caines, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2016.

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• People don't buy what you do; they buy what you stand for.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Marketing, Business Marketing

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• If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker, Dies at 86" by William Yardley, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.

  Philip Kotler

  Business, Marketing, Lifetime

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.

  Jeff Bezos

  Life, Success, Business

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• The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
  imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Fear, Business

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• Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.

  Beth Comstock

  Motivational, Believe, Emotional

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• Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

  Jay Baer

  Giving, Marketing, Stories

  "Youtility author Jay Baer on Why Smart Marketing is all About Help Not Hype". Interview with Arnie Kuenn, www.verticalmeasures.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

  Erik Qualman

  Powerful, Party, Successful

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• Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Success, Fun

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• Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

  Henry Ford

  Insightful, Marketing, Watches

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• Social Media are tools, Real Time is a mindset.

  David Meerman Scott

  Business, Real, Media

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• Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

  Seth Godin

  Promise, Marketing, Way

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

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• Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.

  Chris Brogan

  Powerful, Life And Love, Book

  "How I Got Here - Olivia Magnusson Murray". Inteview with Georgina Cotton, www.eventmagazine.co.uk. October 23, 2013.

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• Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

  John Wanamaker

  Money, Business, Marketing

  "Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, Chapter 3, 1963.

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• You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything.

  Beth Comstock

  Marketing, Storytelling, Sells

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• If you're a good marketing person, you have to be a little crazy.

  Jim Metcalf

  Crazy, Marketing, Littles

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• The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

  David Ogilvy

  Creativity, Humor, Thinking

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• Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.

  Jonah Sachs

  Motivational, Real, People

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• In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

  John Romero

  Perspective, Missing, Marketing

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