Summoning creative inspiration can be a little like eating peanut butter on saltines while you’ve got cottonmouth. In other words: It can be difficult.
If we’re being completely honest, it’s safe to say that some days are just harder than others. And on those days, it’s easy to feel lonely in your pursuit of content marketing. But here’s the thing — you’re not. You don’t have to fly solo or reinvent the wheel. There’s a whole big world of marketing experts out there, replete with wonderful knowledge, sage advice and whatever else you can dream up.
So whether you’re crafting up a blog post like yours truly here, designing a bland (but “make it inspired!”) marketing brochure or wrangling some content for social media, you can look to our listicle of marketing quotes to get you jump-started — or to share with others!
Famous marketing quotes
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.”
Simon Sinek
“Instead of interrupting, work on attracting.”
Dharmesh Shah
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
“Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.”
Jonah Sachs
“Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they’d like to go.”
Seth Godin
“Marketing is really just about sharing your passion.”
Michael Hyatt
Branding marketing quotes
“It’s quite fun to do the impossible.”
Walt Disney
“Behind every piece of bad content is an executive who asked for it.”
Michael Brenner
“A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is — it is what consumers tell each other it is.”
Scott Cook
“Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.”
Seth Godin
“Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touchpoints.”
Jonah Sachs
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Social media marketing quotes
“Content is fire, social media is gasoline.”
Jay Baer
“Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology”
Brian Solis
“Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them and they may come and stay.”
Seth Godin
“Social media is about the people. Not about your business. Provide for the people and the people will provide for you.”
Matt Goulart
“Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart, and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
Content marketing quotes
“You can’t sell anything if you can’t tell anything.”
Beth Comstock
“Content builds relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Trust drives revenue.”
Andrew Davis
“Not viewing your email marketing as content is a mistake.”
Chris Baggott
“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
“What separates good content from great content is a willingness to take risks and push the envelope.”
Brian Halligan
“Quality content means content that is packed with clear utility and is brimming with inspiration, and it has relentless empathy for the audience.”
Ann Handley
Storytelling marketing quotes
“Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.”
Seth Godin
“Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well.”
Ann Handley
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
“If your stories are all about your products and services, that’s not storytelling. It’s a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.”
Jay Baer
“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
Steve Jobs
At the end of the day
“Inspiration doesn’t respond to meeting requests. You can’t schedule greatness.”
Jay Baer
Your brand needs to go the distance. A memorable brand shows up for their customers. But, cultivating that type of experience is a whole other story. Because regardless of your role in marketing or what type of marketing content you’re creating, knowing and understanding the effectiveness of your content is the key to being “that brand” for “that customer — learn more about what constitutes effective content and how to begin nurturing it for your brand.
