#marketing

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#been #believed #case #every #extremely

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last. ↗

— John Romero

#customers #first #i #last #market

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#bachelor #i #majored #marketing #science

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#before #chefs #come #cooking #delivering

What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for him. His baseline attitude toward other humans wass that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was probably rooted in a belief that hed been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was an objective reality, which all people worth talking to could observe and understand, and that there was no point in arguing about anything that could be so observed and so understood. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#sales #attitude

Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department. ↗

— David Packard

#important #left #marketing #too

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value. ↗

— Philip Kotler

#client #customer #marketing #product #value

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do… ↗

— George Lois

#branding-expert #marketing #art