Business Quotes - Page 44

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That's when you find out who you are and what your values are.

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.