Marketing Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old marketing quotes, marketing sayings, and marketing proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Real content marketing isn't repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about. Seth Godin
Marketing without data is like driving with your eyes closed. Dan Zarella
Online marketing rarely is able to appeal to more than two senses - yet offline often (if utilized the right way) represents the option of multi sensory appeals. Martin Lindstrom
The mark of a good marketing strategy is not how many gadgets and neologisms are crammed into it, but how effectively it achieves worthy goals. Therefore, how you define your intent will have a profound impact on whether you succeed or fail. Greg Satell
Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business. Peter Drucker
Marketing implies that you want a public to relate to your product - if it's a product - in a way that makes them want to use it. That is only good or evil in relationship to what the product actually does. Paula Scher
The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation. Seth Godin
Marketing should focus on market creation, not market sharing. Regis McKenna
Marketing is the set of human activities directed at facilitating and consummating exchanges. Philip Kotler
Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely. Jay Conrad Levinson
Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice. Seth
Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective. Al Ries
Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect. Al Ries
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
Marketing has always been about the same thing - who your customers are and where they are. Noah Kagan
Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it. David Meerman Scott
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates
Our jobs as marketers are to understand how the customer wants to buy and help them to do so. Bryan Eisenberg
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan. Dave Ramsey
Content marketing is really like a first date. If all you do is talk about yourself, there won’t be a second date. David Beebe
Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition. David Trott
Traditional marketing talks at people. Content marketing talks with them. Doug Kessler
Marketing is fundamental to what makes us human. Marketing is not solely about selling chewing gum, cars, cellphones, and tourist packages. Everything in life involves the process of marketing something to someone Gad Saad
Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household. Gary Vaynerchuk
Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk. Jeffrey Zeldman
Marketing is the obverse of programming. John McAfee
Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service. John Rampton
Content marketing is one of the most effective ways to promote your business online - but only when it's done right. John Rampton
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. Leo Burnett