When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
We didn't start our business to see how much money we could make, but to see how good a job we could do.
If a man goes into business with only the idea of making a lot of money, chances are he won't. But if he puts service and quality first, the money will take care of itself. Producing a first-class product that is a real need is a much stronger motivation for success than getting rich.
I’m hell-bent on quality.
Good taste is good business.
I’d rather make eight million good impressions than 28 million bad ones.
Everybody in the place was against it.
I just don’t like to sit around and wait for something to happen. It’s more fun making it happen.
I figured I wasn’t as smart as some of the other fellows, so I had to work twice as hard.
In bad times people sendgreeting cardsinstead of presents.
All I was trying to do was make a living. In those days, if you didn't work, you didn't eat. And I like to eat.
The Lord will provide. It’s a good idea to give the Lord a little help.
Related Forum Posts Update on profiles to come
- Here is a list of the upcoming entrepreneurs that we will be featuring. Thank you Kevin for the feedback!
Vera Wang
Magic Johnson
Joyce Hall
Wayne Huizenga
Martin Lindstrom (Toblerone)
Peter van Stolk (Jones Soda)
Re: Update on profiles to come
- [quote="Evan":3e19sx5g]Here is a list of the upcoming entrepreneurs that we will be featuring. Thank you Kevin for the feedback!
Vera Wang
Magic Johnson
Joyce Hall
Wayne Huizenga
Martin Lindstrom (Toblerone)
Peter van Stolk (Jones Soda)[/quote:3e19sx5g]
Just a quick fix:
Theodore Tobler (Toblerone)
Who to profile next?
- It's time to get your suggestions again for which famous entrepreneur to profile next on the website! We are looking for suggestions for success stories that are inspiring as well as those that are recognizable. Ideally the people are brand name entrepreneurs who people recognize (at least their companies are recognizable if not themselves individually).
Some initial sugestions are:
Joyce Hall (Hallmark)
Vera Wang
Nolan Bushnell (Atari & Chuck E. Cheese)
Magic Johnson
James Kimsey (AOL)
Wayne Huizenga (Blockbuster)
Mike Ilitch (Little Caesars)
What do you think? Who would you like to see profiled?
Top 19 Copywriting books
- 1. Ogilvy on Advertising. David Ogilvy. Wiley.
2. Positioning: The Battle for your Mind. Al Ries and Jack Trout. Warner.
3. The New Positioning. Jack Trout. McGraw-Hill.
4. Tested Advertising Methods. John Caples. Prentice-Hall.
5. How to Make your Advertising Make Money. John Caples. Prentice-Hall.
6. Guerrilla Advertising. Jay Conrad Levinson. Houghton Mifflin.
7. Direct Mail Copy that Sells. Herschell Gordon Lewis. Prentice-Hall.
8. Sales Letters that Sizzle. Herschell Gordon Lewis. NTC Business Books.
9. Herschell Gordon Lewis on the Art of Writing Copy. Herschell Gordon Lewis. Prentice-Hall.
10. Romancing the Brand. David Martin. American Management Association.
11. The Art of Writing Advertising: Conversations with William Bernbach, Leo Burnett, George Gribbin, David Ogilvy, Rosser Reeves. NTC Business Books.
12. Confessions of an Advertising Man. David Ogilvy. NTC Business Books.
13. My Life in Advertising. Claude Hopkins. NTC Business Books.
14. Scientific Advertising. Claude Hopkins. NTC Business Books.
15. How to Become an Advertising Man. James Webb Young. NTC Business Books.
16. The Lasker Story as He Told It. NTC Business Books.
17. Advertising Concept and Copy. George Felton. Prentice Hall.
18. The Copy WorkShop Workbook. Bruce Bendinger. The Copy Workshop.
19. Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads. Luke Sullivan. Wiley.
This should keep you busy for at least a year.
Enjoy!
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- Hi Kevin - thanks for the suggestion!
The two that we were thinking of were Famous Entrepreneur Quotes and Which famous entrepreneur am I most like?
I like your idea as well. We've got a rollout schedule of new features for the site that we are working on first before we can get to the Facebook app. We're also not sure how hard it is to integrate into Facebook. It looks like there is a php way to do it which is great because that is our core competency.
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