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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by helping to maintain the freedom of the mass media themselves. The free society is one where advertising and advertising agencies are likely to be in considerable demand, though it is true that even in a totally centralist society there would still be a need for organisations and people to have access to mass communication media.

Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist's drill.

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

Advertising is fundamental to the accessibility, affordability and dynamism of the internet, helping to pay for much of the content and services we all enjoy and use for free.

Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.

Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because inherent in having the desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.