Quotes and Sayings about Marketing

When it comes to business profitability, every business persons and entrepreneurs should assure that their products are sold out to satisfied customers. To ensure that your volume of sales and number of happy customers are rising, you need to put good marketing from production, to selling, up to customer support. Every marketer knows that marketing has 4Ps (i.e., product, price, place and promotion). Now, let’s take a deeper look at the profound wisdom and principles which are filled inside of the following quotes, quotations and sayings about marketing.

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

“Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.” -Leo Burnett quotes

“Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.” -Wanda Sykes

“Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.” -Nile Rodgers

“Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that’s still very valid to us. We’ll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.” -Andrea Jung

“Internal marketing is probably much more important than external marketing. That’s even more true today than it’s ever been.” Tom Stewart

“This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.” -John Ilhan

“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” -Norman Douglas, South Wind

“Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn’t control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.” -Nicolas Roeg

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

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

“Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.” -Author Unknown

“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

“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark.  You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.” -Steuart Henderson Britt

“Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read.  You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife.  Don’t tell them to mine.” -David Ogilvy

“It used to be that people needed products to survive.  Now products need people to survive.”  -Nicholas Johnson

“LESSONS IN MARKETING”

You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You went up to her and say “I am very rich. Marry me”.
That’s DIRECT MARKETING

You are at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says, “He is very rich. Marry him”.
That’s ADVERTISING

You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone number. The next day you called her and say, “Hi, I am very rich. Marry me”.
That’s TELEMARKETING.

You are at a party and see a beautiful girl. You get up and straighten your tie, you walk up to her and pour her a drink. You open the door for her, pick up her bag after she drops it, offer her a ride, and then say, ‘By the way, I’m very rich. Will you marry me?’.
That’s PUBLIC RELATIONS.

You are at a party and see a gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says, “You are very rich”.
That’s BRAND RECOGNITION.

You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, “I am very rich. Marry me”.
She gives you a nice hard slap on your face.
That’s CUSTOMER FEEDBACK.
– Unknown