A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
Henry Ford


Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno


So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free.
Jason Love

Everything is just money, money, money. All I want to do is play basketball, drink Pepsi, and wear Reebok.
Shaq


Do not compete with your ad agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
David Ogilvy

"Nate has too much time on his hands."
Jayme

"When you are sitting right on the edge of something daring and scary and creative and powerful and perhaps wonderful... and you blink and take a step back.

That's the moment. The moment between you and remarkable. Most people blink. Most people get stuck.

All the hard work and preparation and daring and luck is nothing compared with the ability to not blink."

–Seth Godin

Not sure it counts as a "marketing quote" but it's one of my all-time favorites!

Your NETWORTH is as big as your NETWORK
-me

"You are only respected to the same extent that you are either feared, envied, or desired."


Well, that's dripping in irony.

I think that's the point.

Not something I figured Shaq could come up with on his own.

john, tall people can be smart too. i know because i work with one, and despite all the oxygen up there, he seems to be doing ok.

heehee.

joke aside, shaq never struck me as having sub-par intelligence, btw. i am curious how you came to that conclusion?



oh, and marketing quotes, so i'm not off topic:

"Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film. They advertise memories." - Theodore Levitt

"In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope."
Charles Revson



and one (paraphrased) a friend of my recently said (who will remain nameless!):
"I don't think I want to try that. I don't trust the product cause the marketing is just too slick."

A good nugget from my dad - "If no one is complaining about your prices, you aren't charging enough."

These are awesome! Great post Nate!

People really don't understand how smart and quick-witted Shaq can be. He is also a really generous person too -- and not in a fake "Hey watch me give the underprivileged kid something" way. He used to go through the poorest neighborhoods in LA on Christmas and hand out toys (think Playstation 2, etc) he paid for out of his own pocket.

BTW, I hate his style of basketball but respect him a lot as a person.

"Don't do what every other person has done to sell stuff in the past, and DON'T approach a business owner by telling them what THEY can do to help YOU. How you can feed off of their success and marketing. They don't want to hear that. Go find a way to directly benefit them with no strings attached - they'll love and respect you for it."

- Kevin King from this post on pet photography marketing. (emphasis added)

"If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying "Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday," that's advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that's promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayor's flower bed, that's publicity. And if you get the mayor to laugh about it, that's public relations. If the town's citizens go the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they'll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus, that's sales."
Unknown

"All things being equal, people want to do business with their friends. And all things not being equal people still want to do business with their friends."
Jeffrey Gitomer

I'd be generous if I had a couple of hundred million dollars.

Just get him to stop making movies.

A friend in the market is better than money in the purse. - from a fortune cookie


I love this quote! It's powerful on multiple levels, including marketing!

Amen to that. He's not a gifted film actor though his interviews are hilarious if you pay attention to the subtext. The man is an entertainer and a gifted athlete.

How's that for going off topic?

Here, my favorite quote:

"Buy Volvos. They’re boxy, but they’re good."

Not necessarily "marketing" but one I have taped on my monitor...

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." -- Dr. David M. Burns

"The brand is the product as it is experienced and valued in everyday social life. Names, logos & designs are the material markers of the brand, not the brand itself. If the product has no culture or history, the markers have no meaning."

Dr. Barry Babin - Dept. Chair - Marketing and Management - University of Southern MS

lol.. hows that for a marketing quote... pfffft...

yay - Friday is my last day of school! - sorry.. mini-thread jack

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I got this in an email newsletter today. It's talking about stock photography marketing, but it's still applicable.

"FAIL BUT DON’T QUIT. Are you afraid you are not going to make it? Fear of failing is one of the greatest deterrents to beginners in the photo-marketing field. That’s why not too many succeed; they never get up after they’ve been knocked down. Most successful people in any field have failed many times. The difference between them and the ones who fail is that the ones who “make it” never quit. Many of the success stories are still in business not because they are extra good, but because the rest of the competition gave up and quit."

- Rohn Engh

Love that one!! LOL.Here's one I just posted on the blog today...