What Is Your Favorite Marketing Quotes (Pick 2)

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* 1. What Is Your Favorite Marketing Quotes (Pick 2)

1. “The best marketing strategy ever: CARE.” ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, entrepreneur, speaker & marketing expert

2. “Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.” ~ Brian Chesky, cofounder of Airbnb

3. “Marketing is really just about sharing your passion.” ~ Michael Hyatt, virtual business mentor

4. “Amazing things will happen when you listen to the consumer.” ~ Jonathan Midenhall, CMO of Airbnb

5. “Give them quality. That is the best kind of advertising.” ~ Milton Hershey, entrepreneur

6. “You can never go wrong by investing in communities and the human beings within them.” ~ Pam Moore, CEO of Marketing Nutz

7. “Our jobs as marketers are to understand how the customer wants to buy and help them to do so.” ~ Bryan Eisenberg, speaker and online marketing pioneer

8. “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” ~ Simon Sinek, author and marketing consultant

9. “Strong customer relationships drive sales, sustainability, and growth.” ~ Tom Cates, chairman and founder of The Brookeside Group

10. “When people feel insecure about something, they look around for validation. Show them that other people trust you.” ~ Francisco Rosales, social media marketing coach

11. “Advertising brings in customers, but word-of-mouth brings in the best customers.” ~ Jonah Berger, author & marketing professor

12. “Conversation with customers will increase sales, even if the product or service is never mentioned.” ~ George Farris, founder of Farris Marketing

13.“People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction.” ~ Brian Halligan, founder & CEO of HubSpot

14. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” ~ Milan Kundera, writer

15. “The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.” ~ Tom Fishburne, “marketoonist”

16. “Today it’s important to be present, be relevant and add value.” ~ Nick Besbeas, former CMO of LinkedIn

17. “Instead of using technology to automate processes, think about using technology to enhance human interaction.” ~ Tony Zambito, lead authority in buyer personas

18. “Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it.” ~ Jay Baer, author & inspirational marketing speaker

19. “The internet has turned what used to be a controlled, one-way message into a real-time dialogue with millions.” ~ Danielle Sacks, senior editor at Inc. magazine

20. “Marketing’s job is never done. It’s about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.” ~ Beth Comstock, Vice Chair of GE

21. “Word of mouth can be as important, if not more important, for neighborhood businesses as traditional advertising.” ~ Ekaterina Walter, marketing strategist

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22. “Going viral is not an outcome; it's a happening. Sometimes it happens; sometimes it doesn’t. Just remember, fans are vanity and sales are sanity.” ~ Lori Taylor, founder & executive editor of Social Caffeine

23. “The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, third president

24. “People spend money when and where they feel good.” ~ Walt Disney

25. “Sell the problem you solve. Not the product you make.” ~ Unknown

26. “Marketing without data is like driving with your eyes closed.” ~ Dan Zarrella, social media scientist

27. “Banners have 99 problems and a click ain’t one.” ~ Scott Sorokin, Chief Strategy Officer at Razorfish

28. “Stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in.” ~ Craig Davis, former Chief Creative Officer at J. Walter Thompson.

29. “Make your customer the hero of your stories.” ~ Ann Handley

30. “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.” ~ David Packard

31. “The buyer journey is nothing more than a series of questions that must be answered.” ~ IDC

32. “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” ~ Simon Sinek

33. “Market like the year you are in!” ~ Gary Vaynerchuck

34. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” ~ Seth Godin

35. “Make your marketing so useful, people will pay you for it.” ~ Jay Baer

36. “Help your customers and you help your business.” ~ Leo Burnett

37. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” ~ Milan Kundera

38. “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” ~ Peter F. Drucker

39. “The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.” ~ Sergio Zyman

40. “What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.” ~ David Ogilvy

41. “The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.” ~ Peter Drucker

42. “If you have more money than brains you should focus on outbound marketing. If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.” ~ Guy Kawasaki

43. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

44. “Markets are conversations.” ~ The Cluetrain Manifesto

45. “Marketing takes a day to learn and a lifetime to master.” ~ Phil Kolter

46. “Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.” ~ Adolph Ochs

47. “Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.” ~ Seth Godin

48. “There is nothing more valuable than a spotless reputation.” ~ William Shakespeare

49. “Companies that speak in the language of the pitch are no longer speaking to anyone.” ~ The Cluetrain Manifesto

50. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou