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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Marketing

"True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?""

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
Marketing

"If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Marketing

"We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice."

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Seth Musician
Marketing

"The Internet is going to change marketing before it changes almost anything else, and old marketing will die in its path."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Marketing

"The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Marketing

"You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Marketing

"Marketing used to be what you say Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Marketing

"Go for the edges. Challenge yourself and your team to describe what those edges are, and then test which edge is most likely to deliver the marketing results you seek."

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