Business Marketing Quotes:

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Success, Reading, Social Media Marketing, Either Or

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspiration, Way, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Creating Worlds

The future of network marketing is unlimited. There's no end in sight. It will continue to grow because better people are getting into it . . . soon, it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Sight, People, Marketing, Mlm, Network Marketing

The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.

- Seth Godin

topic: Inspirational, Real, Media, Overnight Success, Business Marketing

Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Writing, People, Together, Marketing Strategy, Digital Marketing

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

- Henry Ford

topic: Insightful, Marketing, Watches, Advertising And Marketing, Advertising Business

Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

- Seth Godin

topic: Media, May, Social, Social Media Marketing, Business Marketing

Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.

- Ryan Kahn

topic: Success, Media, Fire, Social Media Marketing, Marketing And Sales

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe

- Simon Sinek

source: "How great leaders inspire action". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2009.

topic: Life, Believe, People, Great Marketing, Business Marketing

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

topic: Believe, Emotional, Marketing, Online Marketing, Relevance

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

- Jonah Sachs

topic: Real, People, Marketing, Online Marketing, Marketers

Make the customer the hero of your brand's story.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Hero, Stories, Social Media, Marketing Strategy, Content Marketing

Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life.

- Avinash Kaushik

topic: Web Content, Insightful, Marketing, Marketing Plans, Marketing Strategy

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

- Leo Burnett

topic: Inspirational, Success, Fun, Successful Writing, Content Marketing

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

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

- Charlene Li

topic: Marketing, Ends, Great Marketing, Business Marketing

What helps people, helps business.

- Leo Burnett

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

topic: Business, People, Helping, Customer Success, Advertising Business

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

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

topic: Life And Love, Book, Path, Social Media Marketing, Inspiring Business

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

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

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Goal Setting

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Success Failure

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Success, Education, Money, Makin Money, Good Money

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

- Erik Qualman

topic: Powerful, Party, Successful, Social Media Marketing, Successful Company

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Witty, Consumer Protection, Vapid

The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Opportunity, Complaining, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Service

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Design, Excellence, Balls, Marketers, Advertising And Marketing

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Evil, Marketing, Motivational Business, Evil Things, Advertising Business

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

source: "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

topic: Loyalty, Business, Educational, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Inspirational, Life Is Short, Thinking, Life's Too Short, Social Media Marketing

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

- Margaret J. Wheatley

topic: Inspirational, Business, Creativity, Creative People, Innovation Inspiration

To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products.

- Brian Halligan

source: Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah (2009). “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Successful, Marketing, Way, Digital Marketing, Business Marketing

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

- Scott D. Cook

topic: Social Media, Consumers, Brands, Social Impact, Social Media Marketing

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

- Jay Baer

topic: People, Marketing, Pay, Great Marketing, Business Marketing

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

- David Meerman Scott

topic: Thinking, Marketers, Social Media Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Shocking

It’s fascinating how the fundamentals of business-to-business marketing are the same today as they were 50 years ago. It’s still about relationships although today we have new tools and techniques at our disposal.

- David Meerman Scott

topic: Years, Marketing, Technique, Business Marketing

The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans were talking about things being crap in the 17th and 18th centuries. What Sir Thomas Crapper – complete coincidence – does is not invent the flushing toilet, as many, many people believe, but was a great promoter for it. He ran a business marketing other people's products and that's why his name was on them. When the American soldiers came over in the First World War, they all thought it was hilarious that it said 'crapper' on them.

- Lucy Worsley

topic: War, Father, Believe, Flushing, 17th Century