M Quotes
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“Marketing needs to be ethical. Anything which is not is generally a wrong marketing technique.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.”
“Marketing only really works with word of mouth.”
“Marketing should be the most active employee of any company.”
Source: I communicate, Therefore, I sell: “Communication is the most stable currency because it never loses its value.”
“Marketing should focus on market creation, not market sharing”
Source: The Regis touch: million-dollar advice from America's top marketing consultant
“Marketing strategies momentarily lays the foundation for a school's success, guiding its efforts to reach and resonate with its target audience, while branding strategies ultimately shape the school's identity, values, and perception in the market.”
“Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.”
“Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.”
“Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.”
“Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice.”
“Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.”
“Marketing today is much more like sailing than driving. Your boat is the brand. If you point your boat in the right direction, follow the winds/currents, and steer, you will get the boat to go where you want it. Marketers should become the wind, but accept that they’re at the mercy of the currents and weather”
“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.”
“Marketing without empathy is noise; with empathy, it becomes narrative.”
“Marketing without sales is dead.”
“Marketing without statistics is navigating without a map.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.”
“Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.”
“Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent.”
Source: The 80/20 Principle
“Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.”
“Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful.”
“Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man”
“Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.”
“Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.”
Source: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
“Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.”
“Markets are conversations.”
“Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.”
“Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product.”
“Markets are free when human beings have equal opportunities to influence the production and trade of desirable goods and services... Some people attain market control and set market prices due to favourable natural, social or political conditions: They attain a monopoly. The problem with monopolies is that they enable those who have attained them to extract money from society without providing goods or services of corresponding value. Apart from abolute monopolies, monopolies can also occur when the market is simply closed to new participants because overall supply can't be increased; these are known as entry monopolies.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.”
“Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.”
“Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.”
“Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.”
“Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.”
“Markets are not efficient enough; that’s why we have market peaks and bottoms now and then.”
“Markets are not efficient enough to incorporate actual inherent risk, given information bias, and emotionally challenged participants. Instead, prices are adjusted up to the cumulative perceived risk of all participants.”
“Markets are not fixed entities; they are dynamic
groups which change over time.”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework
“Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions.”
“Markets are not, in my opinion, a full solution to any problem. The obvious problem they don't meet is the concerns of the welfare of individuals who may get lost in the operation of the system - the distributional question. We've seen this growing as we go further and further toward a market ideology in the United States and the United Kingdom. We've seen a decline in the welfare of the working poor, leaving aside any other pathologies, just the working poor, a very distinct increase at the very top levels.”
“Markets are saying pretty much what I'm saying too: that Greece is doing what it can, but that Greece is not going to be able to carry the weight of all of Europe and the other problems that Europe has.”
“Markets are the best way to allocate resources.”
“Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.”
“Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.”
Source: Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.”
“Markets are voting machines; they function by taking referenda. In the new world money market, for example, currency values are now decided by a constant referendum of thousands of currency traders in hundreds of trading rooms around the globe, all connected to each other by a vast electronic network giving each trader instant access to information about any factor that might affect values. That constant referendum makes it much harder for central banks and governments to manipulate currency values.”
“Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.”
“Markets by themselves offer no protection against fraud, theft and violence.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.”
Source: The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market
“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
“Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.”