Business, marketing, advertising and success quotes to motivate you. Read them in your darkest hour, or greatest triumph, or maybe just to keep you inspired.
What is the difference between an average person and a successful person? What makes the top business man/woman, great entertainers, marketing gurus, elite athletes, advertising experts, entrepreneurs and geniuses different? It is their mindset, the way they think and talk. Read, listen and feel the quotes of some people who play the greatest game of all...life.
"Wealth is the product of man's ability to think." Ayn Rand
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework." Thomas Edison
“Companies worry too much about the cost of doing something. They should worry about the cost of not doing it.” Philip Kotler
"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark." David Ogilvy
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." Vince Lombardi
“Attract not distract, reigns supreme over create-ability for advertising.” Craig Howlett
"It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude." Zig Ziglar
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." Henry Ford
"You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!" Zig Ziglar
"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." Anthony Robbins
"Like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big." Donald Trump
"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." Charles Schwab
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Peter Drucker
"The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell." Jay Abraham
"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist." Harold Wilkins
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have." Thomas Jefferson
"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information." David Ogilvy
"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart." Thomas J. Watson
"The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting." Christopher Morley
"Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears." Brian Tracy
"You are what you think about all day long." Dr. Robert Schuller
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." Napolean Hill
“We get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on the floor and selling them.” Gerry Harvey
"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people." Thomas J. Peters
"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation." Peter F. Drucker
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." Zig Ziglar
br> "Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures." Vince Lombardi
"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar." David Ogilvy
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows." Aristotle Onassis
“Great businesses are passionate.” Jim Penman
"The largest profits go to those businesses which most devotedly follow a policy of insisting on a competitive advantage, no matter how small, for every product or service they market.” R. H. Beeby
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." Woody Allen
"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become." Jim Rohn
"The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed." Nelson Boswell
“Truly great brands are far more than just labels for products; they are symbols that encapsulate the desires of consumers; they are standards that are held aloft under which the masses congregate.” Tony O'Reilly
"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants." David Ogilvy
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." Bill Gates
"Willing is not enough; we must do. Knowing is not enough; we must apply." Bruce Lee
“So marketing isn’t about the best product or service! It is everything you do and don’t do. It is what you communicate to customers. It is what you shout out at the top of your lungs, while standing on Mount Everest and it is what you whisper at night time in the deepest cave to your customers. Every single part of your business that is heard, seen, felt, tasted, experienced and everything that is not, that is marketing!” Craig Howlett
“The simple act of thinking big immediately distinguishes you from the vast majority of people. So start now. First find a big goal for yourself, then mold yourself to become the person who can accomplish goal” Donald Trump
"There's a way to do it better - find it." Thomas Edison
"You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success." Zig Ziglar
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." Thomas Edison
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence." Calvin Coolidge
"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it." Dr. Joyce
“You have to love what you do or you are never going to be successful no matter what you do in life” Donald Trump
“A daily obsession with how can I provide better customer service?” Jim Penman
“Keeping your dreams and goals within focus means they are within your reach.” Justin Herald
“Rather than try to fix the outside world around you, fix what’s inside.” John McGrath
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” Michelangelo
“Live with an attitude of gratitude.” Anthony Robbins
“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Business is simple, but don’t confuse simple with easy.” Tom O’Toole
Sunday, October 5, 2008
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