Pain Comes Before Change

Those in pain will choose to remain in pain until it rises to such a level it can no longer be ignored. Change will then emerge.
— Doug Kelsey

Beware Following the Herd

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
— Mark Twain

Keep Moving Forward

Success is not final; failure is not final. It is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston Churchill

Always Have a Plan B

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.
— Mike Tyson

What Marketing Should You Do First?

First do the things that will have the greatest impact on growth.
— Wizard of Ads Partners

Advertising Strategy vs. Advertising Copy

Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.
— Roy H. Williams, The Wizard of Ads

What To Leave Out?

What will you leave out of your ads so that the imagination of the customer is engaged?
— Roy H. Williams

Communication vs. Persuasion

Communication is what happens when you cause another person to see what you see. Persuasion is what happens when you cause another person to believe what you believe.
— Roy H. Williams, The Wizard of Ads

Public Speaking

The hardest part of public speaking is escaping the nitpickers; those annoying people who hover offstage, mosquito-like, to tell you how their opinion differs from your own.
— Roy H. Williams

Steve Wozniak, of Apple

"Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me ... they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone .... I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone... Not on a committee. Not on a team."