Marketing Quotes

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.

~ Derek Thompson

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody thinks you are wrong

~ Derek Thompson

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

~ Thomas Hardy

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

~ Simon Sinek

Text, images, and video are the paint swatches of 21st-century artists — with a single catch: this form of art has to communicate, engage, and sell.

~ Laura Busche

You can follow others into mediocrity, or you can create something that will be remembered

~ Candice Galek

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.

~ Anthony Volodkin

When positioning a brand, aggressively avoid becoming a me too by assertively being a who else?

~ Crystal Black Davis

When we write from the inside out rather than the outside in, when we write about what most concerns us rather than about what we feel might sell, we often write so well and so persuasively that the market responds to our efforts.

~ Julia Cameron

I wonder how Japan's futuristic robot doctors will treat the worst and most widespread disease humanity already has - artificially lowered IQ. Making people stupider makes them buy more stuff – so “How many robots can you afford?” will be the big question of one of the following decades, unless we go back to Communism and produce everything for the sake of it, for free.

~ Will Advise

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

~ Seth Godin

This book is all about helping you get your name and message automatically posted online by others.

~ Ken Poirot

I purposely used a pretty cocky, abrasive writing style in Sex and Crime, to stir up some drama. My confrontational style quickly became the talk of the scene. Some of the things I wrote were so inflammatory, people had to vent about it on online forums. So suddenly everyone in the scene was talking about Sex and Crime, just as I had hoped. I enjoyed playing the role of agitator, and people from competing hacking crews didn't even realize that the more they bitched about the things I wrote, the more credibility and notoriety they were adding to my scene mag. Thanks to all the positive as well as negative feedback I was getting, the things I wrote actually mattered. Suddenly I was the most important opinion maker in the scene.

~ Oliver Markus

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

~ Noah Kerner

92% of respondents reported that a positive recommendation from a friend,family member, or someone they trust is the biggest influence on whether they buy a product or service.

~ Paul M. Rand

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

~ David Levithan

In the timeless and universal manner of authors conversing in public places, he did not fail to mention its title, “Volume III of Principia Mathematica entitled, The System of the World, available shortly, where books are sold.

~ Neal Stephenson

No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work.

~ Auliq Ice

Publishers and advertisers can't differentiate between the types of impressions an ad does on a site. A perusing reader is no better than an accidental reader. An article that provides worthwhile advice is no more valuable than one instantly forgotten. So long as the page loads and the ads are seen, both sides are fulfilling their purpose. A click is a click.

~ Ryan Holiday

You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.

~ Seth Godin

Marketing should never be just a blunt instrument.

~ Terry O'reilly

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

~ Ryan Lilly

When you are your authentic self, you fulfill the possibilities that dwell inside your soul.

~ April Williams

Don’t obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Holy Spirit never uses guilt or shame to persuade us to give. For that matter, he never persuades us to give in the first place. That's called manipulation, a device employed by a different spirit.

~ Ron Brackin

Over the past 60 years, marketing has moved from being product-centric (Marketing 1.0) to being consumer-centric (Marketing 2.0). Today we see marketing as transforming once again in response to the new dynamics in the environment. We see companies expanding their focus from products to consumers to humankind issues. Marketing 3.0 is the stage when companies shift from consumer-centricity to human-centricity and where profitability is balanced with corporate responsibility.

~ Philip Kotler

Start thinking about a consumer’s “Path to Purpose” along her “Path to Purchase.

~ Ted Rubin

SOCIAL MEDIA IS LIKE A PRIVATE JET IT WILL TAKE YOU EVERYWHERE YOU WANT TO BE.

~ Batya Maman

People don't really trust advertisement they trust people. A large percentage of people make purchase decisions based on their friends review than just from advertisers. Brands that rely sole on adverts to sell, will eventually fade out. You need to get people to talk about your brand in a more positive manner without twisting their arms. If you fake it your will fade. So, focus on relationship marketing, because customers are the best brand ambassadors

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

When we care, we share.

~ Jonah Berger

Social media is like a virtual handshake when used by a professional advisor.

~ Peter Bowman

Today’s businesses can’t just use social media; they have to become social businesses, inside and out and from top to bottom. Ultimately, that is the goal of this book: to harness the power of being a social business to become the most highly recommended organization in your industry/category/niche.

~ Paul M. Rand

The No. 1 most credible source of [online] recommendations is YouTube,” Rand says. “But a friend liking a brand page and sharing that is now considered the second-most prominent form of recommendation, and third is online brand reviews.

~ Paul M. Rand

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

~ Noam Chomsky

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

~ David Ogilvy

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

~ Ken Kesey

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

~ Jeff Bezos

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

~ Jeff Bezos

Attention is a main asset in marketing.

~ Toba Beta

Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century.

~ Gavin John Adams