Marketing & Media Quotes Southern Africa

 
"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. (via Think Exist.com)"
Tom Bodett

"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
Alexis de Tocqueville

"Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately it takes a lifetime to master."
Philip Kotler

"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
Voltaire

"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
William Ruckelshaus

"A brand is a set of differentiating promises that link a product to its customers."
Stuart Agres

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."
Dee Hock

"The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analysed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty."
Thomas Griffith

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office."
Robert Frost

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep"
Scott Adams

"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."
Dale Carnegie

"In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV."
Erma Bombeck

"It's not what you sell.....its how you sell!!"
Harshita Singh

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."
Charles W. Eliot

"Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art."
Bill Bernbach

"The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions."
Diane Ackerman

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon

"A house of brands is like a family, each needs a role and a relationship to others."
Jeffrey Sinclair

"So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free."
Jason Love

"Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures."
Jeffery Veen

"Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy."
Erik Adigard

"Leaders don't force people to follow - they invite them on a journey."
Charles S. Lauer

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
Charles Eames

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur."
Red Adair

"A brand that captures your mind gains behavior. A brand that captures your heart gains commitment."
Scott Talgo

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler

"Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control."
Donna Gephart

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