In business, cooperation is essential to success.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Your business, and your brand, must first let people know what you care about, and that you care about them.
No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
We’ve designed swimming pools that turn into ballrooms, and fitted security devices that fill a garage with gas if someone is stealing your car.
Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about ‘hard work’ without having a corresponding result to show for it.
You don’t learn to walk by following rules, you learn by doing and by falling over.
You now have to decide what ‘image’ you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
The epiphany for me at William Morris was realizing, ‘They bullshit on the phone! I can bullshit on the phone too!’
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.
As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.
While I love technology and social media, a text or a tweet can never replace the real value of conversation.
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
I think everybody thought I was crazy that I quit my job and started a management company in which I was managing one client – Laura Nyro.
Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.
Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.
