Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Fucking With You.

"If someone wants to fuck with you, they'll fuck with you whether you have a contract or not. So trust everyone implicitly, and if they fuck you over go and get them."
Robbie Dillon
Montreal loan shark ex-con

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Two First Names

"Never trust anyone with two first names."
Leona Helmsley
Billionaire Hotel Queen

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Committee group-think

"A camel is a horse designed by committee."
Anon

Forget research

"Basically everyone said we were crazy. But if you want to change the industry and do something new and innovate, research is a bad tool because all you will get fed back is perception today and not tomorrow."
Jochen Zeitz
CEO, Puma.

Friday, April 6, 2007

Customer obsessed

"Our secret is that we have not been competitor obsessed. We have been customer obsessed."
Jeff Bezos
Founder, Amazon.com

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Don't be Evil

"Don't be Evil."
Google Motto

Poison vs. Poison

"Use poison to fight poison."
Chinese Philosophy

Have Fun Make Money

"Have Fun Make Money"
Atari Recruitment Ad

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Smart Enemy

"Always make your enemy feel he is smarter than you are."
Chen Shen

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Clean Toilets

"You can at most times tell how well a business is managed by seeing how clean their toilets are."
John C Smith

Make Better Copies

"If you can't innovate, make better copies."
Anonymous

Products, Ads and PR

"Ad campaigns are necessary for competition; IBM's ads are everywhere. But good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves."
Steve Jobs
Founder, Apple

Monday, March 26, 2007

Expensive Etch A Sketch

"The Macintosh is the world's most expensive Etch A Sketch."
Apple Macintosh Critic

Cola or Apple?

"Are you going to keep selling sugar water to children all your life when you could be changing the world?"
Steve Jobs
Founder, Apple
(in a job offer to John Sulley, President of Pepsi-Cola, who later accepted and joined Apple as President)

Sunday, March 25, 2007

True Feelings

"Reveal what you think but not what you feel."
Anonymous
Arts Of War

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Failure and Achievement

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)

Friday, March 23, 2007

Repair in Good Times

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Cannes Film Festival

"Cannes is a meat market full of sharks. The red carpet is where they eventually dump after they've taken their bite."
David Mcmahon
Indie Film Producer

Negotiation

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Change is the law of life

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)