Marketing Quotes

• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

  Al Ries

  Mind, Building, Selling

  Al Ries, Laura Ries (2009). “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

  Anton Chekhov

  Knowledge, Technology, Practice

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• Marketing is not only much broader than selling, it is not a specialized activity at all. It encompasses the entire business. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Views, Function

  "The Practice of Management".

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

  Philip Kotler

  Business, Lifetime, Masters

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• Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.

  David Packard

  Business, Important, Advertising

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• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.

  Seth Godin

  Moving, Opportunity, Goal

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• Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Witty, Kindness

  1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch.22.

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• In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

  Roy H. Williams

  Blessing, Boredom, Want

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• Marketing is a race without a finishing line

  Philip Kotler

  Race, Finishing, Lines

  Philip Kotler (2011). “Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Henry Ford

  Insightful, Watches, Stopping

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• Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hours, Great Communication, Win Friends And Influence People

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• I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Writing, Thinking

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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, Blogging

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• Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it.

  Jay Baer

  People, Pay, Great Marketing

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• Products that are remarkable get talked about.

  Seth Godin

  Remarkable, Products

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• Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

  Seth Godin

  Stuff, Males, Stories

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

  Simon Sinek

  People, Great Marketing, Business 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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• The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

  Peter Drucker

  Loyalty, Educational, Selling Products

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, p.97, Harper Collins

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• Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

  Philip Kotler

  Art, Business, Clever

  Philip Kotler (2011). “Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• Good marketers tell a story.

  Seth Godin

  Stories, Marketers

  Seth Godin (2007). “Small is the New Big: And 183 Other Riffs, Rants and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.314, Penguin UK

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• The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

  David Ogilvy

  Advertising, Economy, Persuasive

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.

  Ryan Kahn

  Motivational, Success, Fire

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