When we sell products, we don’t sell objects, we sell feelings.
Geoff Burch, British management author, presenter (b. 1951)
It’s not creative unless it sells.
David Ogilvy, US advertising executive (1911-1919)
Plan the sale when you plan the ad.
Leo Burnett, US advertising executive (1891-1971)
Don’t say yes until I finish talking.
Darryl F Zanuck, US film producer, script writer (1902-1979)
Consultants don’t come to your business to give you advice – they come to raise an invoice.
Alan Sugar, British entrepreneur, founder of Amstrad (b. 1947)
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Winnie the Pooh, character in a book by A A Milne (1882-1956)
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Westley, character in the film ‘The Princess Bride’ written by William Goldman (b. 1931)
Size
Hey, size works against excellence.
Bill Gates, US computer engineer, entrepreneur (b. 1955)
Size isn’t everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
Bill Vaughan, US journalist, author (1915-1977)
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Anita Roddick, British retail executive, founder of The Body Shop (1942-2007)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.
E F Schumacher, German/British economist (1911-1977)
What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, Albanian charity worker (1910-1997)
It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.
Steven Wright, US comedian (b. 1955)
Success
Secrets for success:
1. Get up early.
2. Work hard.
3. Find oil.
J P Getty, US industrialist (1892-1976)
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Here is the prime condition of success: having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
Andrew Carnegie, British industrialist, philanthropist (1835-1919)
Success is a great deodorant.
Elizabeth Taylor, British/US actress (1932-2011)
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte, French soldier, statesman, revolutionary (1769-1821)
Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
Agatha Christie, British author (1890-1976)
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain, US food executive (b. 1945)
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
Napoleon Hill, US motivational author, lecturer (1883-1970)
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their ‘luck’ arose from accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.
Srully Blotnick, US management author, journalist (1941-2004)
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
Jean Cocteau, French poet, playwright, film director (1889-1963)
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
John McEnroe, US tennis player, sports commentator (b. 1959)
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal, US author, essayist (b. 1925)
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Allen Stewart Konigsberg, known as Woody Allen, US film actor, director (b. 1935)
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Mary Jean ‘Lily’ Tomlin, US comic actress (b. 1939)
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton, US businessman, founder of Hilton Hotels (1887-1979)
Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell, US journalist, broadcaster (1897-1972)
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Joyce Brothers, US TV personality, psychologist (b. 1927)
To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
Joseph Marie De Maistre, French diplomat, author (1753-1821)
Teamwork
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford, US automobile manufacturer, engineer (1863-1947)
Teamwork is essential. It allows you to blame someone else.
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Alexander the Great, King of Macedon (356-323 BC)
When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward.
Joseph Stalin, Georgian-born Soviet statesman (1879-1953)
Not even mighty warriors can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from one another, you can be broken like a frail arrow, one at a time.
Borjigin Temüjin, known as Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol empire (1162-1227)
A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
Japanese proverb
When spiders unite they can tie down a lion.
Ethiopian proverb