Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are."
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Marketing
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Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Don't use big words. They mean so little."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Marketing is not only much broader than selling, it is not a specialized activity at all. It encompasses the entire business. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view."
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"Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time."
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"Everyone lives by selling something."
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"It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing."
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"If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business."
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"Marketing is everything and everything is marketing."
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"If you don’t believe in your product, or if you’re not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work."
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"The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous."
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"You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different."
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"Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room"
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"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy."
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"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
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"When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something."
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"Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation."
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"If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing."
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"In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible."
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"The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell."
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"Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost."
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"If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income."
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"No one ever succeeds without the help of others."
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"I’d rather apologize than to be so timid as to never try to do anything smart or brave."
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