Business Quotes - Page 117

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you.

The digital premium business content model is broken and we should all be taking appropriate steps now to ensure the viability of this business is preserved by other means.

The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

There is no business to be done on a dead planet.

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.

American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.

What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.

Have a vision. Be demanding.

Life should be an unfinished business.

I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.