Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marshal Cohen

Anyone who's managing a brand, marketing a product or working for an advertising agency needs to be conscientious in the shifts in consumer dynamics.

Howard Davidowitz

The business is getting smaller -- the advertising, the TV, the magazine -- everything is going down. This company is not going to go away tomorrow. However, the losses are getting scary.

Edgar Shoaff

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

Morris Hite

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

Jan Koum

Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.

William Bernbach

Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.

Eric Clark

Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase. Not the power to brainwash overnight, but the power to create subtle and real change. The power to prevail.

John Cullum

Advertising is a wonderful lubricant for business, if it's used properly.

Saul Berman

Advertising is at its beginning with this. There are so many directions it can go from here, and there are opportunities to sell more effectively through highly targeted ads. Advertisers should embrace this change.

Chuck D.

Any conduct that violates either the law or Red Cross code of conduct is not tolerated.

Yaacov Cohen

We've shifted from being a Microsoft-centric company to more of an IBM- and open-systems-centric company. We made the decision prior to the software code leak, and it had nothing to do with that. That's under federal investigation.

Nick Kinsella

The problem with some people is that they use their religion as a part of their identity rather than what it actually is; a code of conduct.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Tool vendors have made a good start, but have much work to do in tools that depend on compilers and other source code analyzers.

Nick Griffin

Unfortunately, there haven't been any contributions to the code from parties that have downloaded it.

Steve McConnell

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

Michael Bryant

Ontario, therefore urges the federal government, in consultation with the provinces and territories, to undertake an immediate high priority review of the current firearms provisions in the Criminal Code as set out in this paper.

Shane Coursen

But we don't get down and dirty and talk about individual lines of code in our products.

Jerry Weintraub

I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.

Jacob Lew

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

Richard Hayne

At URBN, we see ourselves as customer specialists, a collection of brands, each one specializing in one particular customer group, a particular lifestyle or a life stage. We offer her things she wants in environments that inspire her. We talk to her and listen to her ideas and opinions.

William Penn

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most . . .

Peter Doyle

Operational efficiencies resulting from management interventions over several years, in terms of improved cost management, better quality of new business, more focused premium collection and more competitive investment performance in particular, are largely responsible for this incremental value-add for stakeholders,

Vito Galati

The three of us took work off to start a collection of donations for hurricane victims.

James Doran

The museum has probably the finest collection of its kind in the country.

Kate Kendall

It was very exciting. I was just delighted. We put a lot of work into collecting those samples, and we wanted to get as much information as we could from them.

Michael Kors

The store recently held an exclusive preview of Kors's fall collection. Zac Posen also has been popular this season, as has Jacobs, whose fall collection Monahan called a ''statement.

Jerry Yang

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

Phil Jenkins

It was not an overly serious violation. There was just one pup involved and there was no serious disruption of the herd.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

Stephen Hadley

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

Madeline Albright

use intelligence to shape policy, not twist intelligence to justify policy.

Doris Lessing

Intelligence forbids tears.

Richard Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Stone Gossard

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Sonia Choquette

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

George Foreman

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

Shannon Bennett

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.

Brett Hoebel

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Tiffany Thornton

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Ben Horowitz

Leadership is hard to train on.

Gary Convis

Through this cascading system, we will end up training everyone the same way.

Andy Kindler

I don't really know what's wrong with Jay Leno. I don't have the training to make a professional diagnosis.

Angelo Dundee

Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.

Robert Fripp

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

Rick Moody

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!