Top 1200 Business Marketing Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey.

There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.

Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.

Book marketing should be a planned process, an art if you will.

The key thing is to invest in the future and what that means is when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business, is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices, and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it.

From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.

Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).

I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.

To be truly effective at content marketing, we need to excel at promotion.

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

There is a terrible thing that's been happening probably for the last 20 years or so and it's called the music business. And music isn't really business; it's work and you got to pay and you've got to buy your guitar or go into the studio. So there is a business side but when people say, "I'm going into the music business," it's not. It's about expression. It's about creativity. You don't join music, in my mind, to make money. You join it because it's in you; it's in your blood stream.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

Marketing is really just about sharing your passion.

Acting is definitely an incredible pursuit, but on the other side, it's a business, and learning where art meets business was a huge lesson for me. The more you can wrap your mind around that idea - that yes, this is my art, but it's tied into business - the more it helps you understand and move past the failures.

Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!

Trump is a branding expert. He is a marketing genius to some extent.

I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’ With sustainable business, individuals build solutions within the current system… Sustainable business asks, ‘How would nature do this?’

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

As Regis Mckenna once said, the best marketing is education

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

When you lack cohesion, it becomes difficult to have a clear marketing strategy.

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors.

If you don't have a basic spend on marketing, there is no point releasing the film in theatres.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

Bret Hart, you don't really understand the business of the Pro Wrestling business. You only understand the Bret Hart business of the Pro Wrestling business, and they are two different things.

What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.

Some people would argue the other side: that the business of business is business, and companies should only be focused on profits. But in today's world, I don't think corporations can only be focused on profits, because they are inextricably linked with the communities that they serve. I do not believe you can be a leader in your industry without being a leader in your community. It's a fundamental shift in how you think about business.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

The entire idea of building a series of systems in a business is simply this - to create the tools that allow you, as a business owner, to increase productivity and get the job done. The idea behind these systems, of course, is to quit needing your judgement or input in every area of the business.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions

Marketing starts even before our books are published.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.

The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business - is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.

It's never too early to start marketing your book.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

Twitter marketing in 4 words: Listen. Learn. Care. Serve.

I got into this business for one reason, and I stayed in this business for one reason: To be the World Heavyweight Champion. I think if you are in professional wrestling, and you don't have that dream or aspire to be the best and carry that World Heavyweight Championship, then you are in the wrong business.