A Quote by T. S. Eliot

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

T. S. Eliot

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Business Consists Crowds Persuading Today

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T. S. Eliot
American - Poet
September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

Jacob M. Appel

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Jean Ingelow

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

Victor Papanek

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

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

Mahatma Gandhi

The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters.

Paul Feyerabend

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Drew Curtis

Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.

Frederick Schiller Faust

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

Alex Carey

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

Drew Curtis

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

David Weinberger

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

John Seabrook

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

James Dyson

I think the crowds in Europe are songwriter crowds. Like, they are a fan of the words, and they're there to listen. An American crowd, they're there to get rowdy, man. And I love both.

Luke Combs

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.