We searched far and wide to gather marketing quotes we deemed most impactful. Most of the people who said these have even offered their own pearls of wisdom on the subject of their success. Read below our gathered collection of marketing quotes to help when you might need inspiration.

“If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.”

— Ray Kroc, Owner of McDonalds

“Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk, Founder of VaynerMedia and Bestselling Author

“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, Psychologist and Marketing Professor

“Marketing is about values. It’s a complicated and noisy world, and we’re not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.”

— Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple

“The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.”

— Tom Fishburne, Founder & CEO, Marketoonist

“What separates good content from great content is a willingness to take risks and push the envelope.” — Brian Halligan, CEO & Co-Founder, HubSpot

“Focus on the core problem your business solves and put out lots of content and enthusiasm and ideas about how to solve that problem.”

— Laura Fitton, Founder of the Twitter App Store

“A man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time.”

— Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company

“You cannot underestimate people’s ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It’s a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk, Founder of VaynerMedia and Bestselling Author

“It’s not what you sell that matters as much as how you sell it!”

— Brian Halligan, CEO & Co-Founder, HubSpot

“Many companies have forgotten they sell to actual people. Humans care about the entire experience, not just the marketing or sales or service. To really win in the modern age, you must solve for humans.”

— Dharmesh Shah, CTO & Co-Founder, HubSpot

“For me, pop culture is very fluid: it’s music, it’s movies, it’s books, it’s art, it’s tech, it’s so many things — and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to take products and services and match them to what’s happening in pop culture.”

— Bozoma Saint John, CMO, Endeavor

“Content is the reason search began in the first place.”

— Lee Odden, CEO and Co-Founder of TopRank Marketing

“It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than doubling your traffic.”

— Bryan Eisenberg, Co-founder of Buyer Legends and Bestselling Author

“Boring will put you out of business in 2019”

— Billy Gene Shaw, CEO and Founder of Billy Gene is Marketing

“Think of your customer on one side of a ledge and your product on a nearby ledge. The only way for your customer to get from their ledge to your product’s ledge is a bridge. Copy is that bridge. 

— Ben Griffin, Lead Copywriter at DigitalMarketer

“The person who gives value first has the leverage.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk, Founder of VaynerMedia and Bestselling Author

“The great thing about digital marketing, ingenuity and creativity can always win over big marketing budgets.”

— Ann Smarty, Brand Manager at Internet Marketing Ninjas

“A healthy combination of paid and organic posts – Paired with a consistent posting schedule, a healthy content mix, and a bit of data analysis – is the key to a successful modern day social media strategy that grows your audience and drives people back to your site.”

— Garrett Holmes, General Manager of Get Scalable

“You need to be relevant. Don’t get too entrenched in the way you’ve always done things. Your audience is changing. You need to be aware of social and technological trends that are behind these changes and adapt.”

— Kathryn Aragon, Founder of Kathryn Aragon Media

“Remember, advertising is all about placing the right message in front of the right audience.”

— Molly Pittman, Co-Founder of Team Traffic

“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”

— Walt Disney, Founder of The Walt Disney Company

“Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.”

— Dale Carnegie, Author of How to Win Friends and Influence People

“You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don’t do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk, Founder of VaynerMedia and Bestselling Author

“Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.”

— Dale Carnegie, Author of How to Win Friends and Influence People

These quotes can teach some of the principles that helped these individuals and their businesses find success. Their advice can really inspire us and give us ideas as to how we can shake up our own perspectives in order to achieve new levels of success. We hope that these quotes will help you in your business endeavours.

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