Ken McCarthy quotes

Ken McCarthy quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.”
-- Ken McCarthy

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“20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier.”
-- Ken McCarthy

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“When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.”
-- Ken McCarthy

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“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”
“The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.”
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
“Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!”
“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”

Source : Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media
“Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.”
“Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.”

Source : "Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp" by Ryan Singel, www.wired.com. September 13, 2005.
“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”
“There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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