1. “Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.” ― Brian Chesky
2. “Content marketing is more than a buzzword. It is the hottest trend in marketing because it is the biggest gap between what buyers want and brands produce.” ― Michael Brenner
3. “Amazing things will happen when you listen to the consumer.” ― Jonathan Midenhall
4. “You cannot buy engagement. You have to build engagement.” ― Tara-Nicholle Nelson
5. “You can’t expect to just write and have visitors come to you. That’s too passive.” ― Anita Campbell
6. “Advertising brings in customers, but word-of-mouth brings in the best customers.” ― Jonah Berger
7. “Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.” ― Beth Comstock
8. “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.” ― Bo Bennett
9. “As marketers, we should be changing the mantra from always be closing to always be helping.” ― Jonathan Lister
10. “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” ― Simon Sinek
11. “Conversation with customers will increase sales, even if the product or service is never mentioned.” ― George Farris
12. “If you just help your customers, or help your buyers buy, and answer the questions that they have in that journey, then you can really succeed.” –Michael Brenner
13. “Before you create any more ‘great content,’ figure out how you are going to market it first.” ― Joe Pulizzi
14. “I know that half my ad dollars are wasted, I just don’t know which half.” ― John Wanamaker
15. “Marketing used to be about making a myth and telling it. Now it’s about telling a truth and sharing it.” ― Marc Mathieu
16. “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
17. “Give them quality. That is the best kind of advertising.” ― Milton Hershey
18. “Not viewing your email marketing as content is a mistake.” ― Chris Baggott
19. “The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.” ― Tom Fishburne
20. “Marketing is telling the world you’re a rock star. Content Marketing is showing the world you are one.” ― Robert Rose
21. “No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data.” ― John Scully
22. “Strong customer relationships drive sales, sustainability, and growth.” ― Tom Cates
23. “Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart.” ― Joe Chernov
24. “When people feel insecure about something, they look around for validation. Show them that other people trust you.” ― Francisco Rosales
25. “I am all for conversations, but you need to have a message.” ― Renee Blodgett
26. “Our jobs as marketers are to understand how the customer wants to buy and help them to do so.” ― Bryan Eisenberg
27. “Even when you are marketing to your entire audience or customer base, you are still simply speaking to a single human at any given time.” ― Ann Handley
28. “Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.” ― Seth Godin
29. “You get biased by your existing understanding of the field.” ― Rand Fishkin
30. “Here’s my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.” ― Garth Brooks
31. “People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction.” ― Brian Halligan
32. “Make it simple, but significant.” ― Don Draper
33. “Just because you can measure everything doesn’t mean that you should.” ― W. Edward Deming
34. “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
35. “Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.” ― Erik Qualman
36. “Getting the like is easy. It’s a light action. Anything else requires trust.” ― Jon Loomer
37. “Don’t build links. Build relationships.” ― Rand Fishkin
38. “Content builds relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Trust drives revenue.” ― Andrew Davis
39. “The number of people publishing content on social networks is growing at a staggering rate. Standing out means not trying to be all things to all people. Stand for something specific and focus on going deep on that topic with your messaging, engagement, connections and content.” ― Lee Odden
40. “You can never go wrong by investing in communities and the human beings within them.” ― Pam Moore
41. “Personally, I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms.” ― Dale Carnegie
42. “Behind every tweet, share and purchase, there is a person. Care more about the person and less about the share.” ― Shafqat Islam
43. “Marketing is really just about sharing your passion.” ― Michael Hyatt
44. “The best marketing strategy ever: CARE.” ― Gary Vaynerchuk, entrepreneur
45. “Going viral is not an outcome; it”s a happening. Sometimes it happens; sometimes it doesn’t. Just remember, fans are vanity and sales are sanity.” ― Lori Taylor
46. “Take two ideas and put them together to make one new idea. After all, what is a Snuggie but a mutation of a blanket and a robe?” – Jim Kukral
47. “If you build it… you may still need Google AdWords.” ― Jennifer Mesenbrink
48. “Conversation with customers will increase sales, even if the product or service is never mentioned.” ― George Farris
49. “Search marketing, and most Internet marketing in fact, can be very threatening because there are no rules. There’s no safe haven. To do it right, you need to be willing to be wrong. But search marketing done right is all about being wrong. Experimentation is the only way.” ― Mike Moran
