Great Quotes
Social Media Explorer writes: “The problem with trying to determine ROI for social media is you are trying to put numeric quantities around human interactions and conversations, which are not quantifiable. To illustrate that point for all our measurement and metric geeks out there, what you are trying to do is assign multiple choice scoring to an essay question. It’s not possible.”
“The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.”
Chris Brogan
“Social Media puts the “public” into PR and the “market” into marketing.
C. Anderson
“Your brand isn’t what YOU say it is, it’s what GOOGLE says it is…”
Yves Behar from TED Talks
“Advertising is the price companies pay for being un-original.”
Joseph Jaffe
“Frequency is the price you pay for being not memorable.” (Editor’s Note: A bit harsh, but entertaining nonetheless)
Warren Buffett
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Darryl F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946
“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
Western Union internal memo, 1878
“This `telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”
Thomas J. Watson Sr., IBM Chairman, 1943
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
American Railroad Congress, 1913
“It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of passengers.
F. G. Alton, 1870, cigar maker, turning down Mr. John Player
“Your cigarettes will never become popular.”
Author Unknown
“Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.”
Author Unknown, 1995
“You can’t take something off the Internet – it’s like taking pee out of a pool.”
Author Unknown
“Hooked on Internet? Help is a just a click away.”
Charles H. Duell, US Comissioner of Patents – 1899
“Everything that can be invented, has been invented.”
Stacy DeBroff, founder and CEO of Mom Central
“Social media offers new opportunities to activate Brand Enthusiasm.”
John Munsell, CEO of Bizzuka
“If content is king, then conversion is queen.”
Editor’s Note: I’d add that the queen is the neck that turns the head of the king…
Marshall McLuhan
“Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.”
Albert Einstein
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”
William Shakespeare
“We are advertis’d by our loving friends.”
Edith Wharton
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”
Tell me some of your fav quotes using the comments box below…
Las Vegas landscaping on November 16, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
Love the Warren Buffett quote. He is a great guy…