Jo Han Mok’s Favorite Business Quotes
Here’s my personal collection of “Quotes That Get You Thinking”, which I decided to share with you today.
Undoubtedly as you’ll discover, these quotes have formulated a huge part of my personal business philosophy, and have empowered me with quite a fair addition of business savvy.
Hopefully it can do the same for you.
Trust me, adding a liberal sprinkling of these into your marketing mix will supercharge it with power.
Anyway, as you read down the list below, ask yourself which one of these quotes made an impact on you, and why?
Pray, do share your comments in the comments section below.
“Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.” – Maxwell Maltz
“I have never made the slightest effort to compose anything original.” – Mozart
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock” – Claude McDonald
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy – and Jill a wealthy widow” – Evan Esar
“Do not tell me how hard you work, tell me how much you get done” -James J. Ling
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I don’t know which half.” – John Wanamaker
“Volume times zero isn’t too healthy” – Lee Iacocca
“The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.” – Russell Green
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok
“Every great move I have made in life has been ridiculed and opposed by my friends. The greatest winnings I have made, in happiness, in money or content,have been accomplished amid almost universal scorn.” – Claude Hopkins
“What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.”- Louis L.-Mann
“A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.” – Chinese Proverb
“To sell something, tell a woman it’s a bargain; tell a man it’s deductible.” – Earl Wilson
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits” – Benjamin Franklin
“The meek shall inherit the earth – but they will not get the ball!” – Charles Barkley
“If I see something I like, I buy it, then I try to sell it” – Lord Grade
“A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone” – Henry David Thoreau
“He who multiplies riches multiplies cares” – Benjamin Franklin
“I’d like to live like a poor man with lots of money” – Pablo Picasso
“I’ve got all the money I need if I die by 4 o’clock” – Henny Youngman
“We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think” – Lord Rutherford
“Money doesn’t always bring happiness. I made 6 million dollars this year, and I made 5 last year. I’m no happier.” Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Whatever you have, you must either use or lose” – Henry Ford
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” – Mark Twain
“On CBS Radio the news of Ed Murrow’s death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial.” – Alexander Kendrick
“The definition of advertising is something which makes one think he’s longed all his life for a thing he’s never even heard of before.” – ANON
“I am the world’s worst salesman; therefore I must make it easy for people to buy.” – F.W. Woolworth
“He who findest fault meaneth to buy.” – Thomas Fuller
“Never lie when the truth is more profitable.” Stanislaw J. Lec”Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent.” – Thomas Edison
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Sir Isaac Newton
“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” – Henry Ford
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” – Aldous Leonard Huxley
“Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.” – Lord Chesterfield
“The harder you work, the luckier you get” – Gary Player
“PERFECTIONISM is spelled PARALYSIS” – Winston Churchill
“When people aren’t having any fun, they don’t produce good advertising” – David Ogilvy
“There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.” – Eric Hoffer
“100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.” – Wayne Gretzky
“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows” – Aristotle Onassis
“When all agree In Harmony,it’s not too long Before they’re wrong” (no credit given)
“If profits are evil, losses must be ten times worse” – Bertram Troy
“Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you’re wallowing in indecision, you certainly can’t act – and action is the basis of success.” – Marie Beynon Ray
“He who hesitates is last.” – Mae West
“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder.” - W.J. Slim
“Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.” – Bertrand Russell
“Never confuse motion with action.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Little strokes fell great oaks.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Common sense is as rare as genius.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” -Winston Churchill
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Nuggets of truth aplenty.
hey, I like this in particular: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.â€
Still wondering why information product is the way forward?
Thanks Jo Han..
Miss your hypnotic post for quite sometime.
You must be too busy relaxing!
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“PERFECTIONISM is spelled PARALYSIS†– Winston Churchill
This is the perfect quote to reflect my problem… I am too much of a perfectionist and I want to know everything before I get started on anything…
Hence, up until now I am still not making anything online!
This happens to me my personal favourite:
“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.†– Henry Ford
empowering isn’t it?
you forgot one
” it is better to have loved and lost,
then to never have loved at all”
My favorite quote :
“Simple things should be simple, Complex thing should be possible! ”
Yeahh….
YUAN
Here’s one of my favorites you may like to add to you’re list…
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”
— Ann Landers
I got to hear her speak at our school a long time ago, she was an amazing woman who became a part of our lives thru her daily column.
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“He who hesitates is last.†– Mae West
I hesitated.. and almost missed out on your offer
for your 60minstofreedom package.
When the offer re-opened, I didn’t hesitated at all..
I was lucky to be back in!
and I think this is the best thing I’ve done so far!
Thank YOU, Jo Han!
We have all heard most of these in the past but how often have we taken that knowledge and used it??
Its all so relevent to a good lifestyle not just business and just so very true if only we take notice and respond to what we know but generally ignore.
I shall print some out for the kids and leave them one at a time where they will come across them unexpectedly.
In fact I’ll do the same for me.
Thanks Jo Han
Mark
“Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.†– Maxwell Maltz
Everything in life is somehow related to sales. Our own inner critic can often be our worst enemy.
We must believe in order to achieve.
Thanks for sharing so many wise words of wisdom Jo Han
I love this quote…”Never Confuse motion with action.” Ernest Hemingway. I heard someone say once He is the busiest laziest person I have ever seen. It goes to show you just because you are going through the motions doesn’t mean you are taking action. Action is the key to your success.
I also appreciated “common sense is a rare as genius.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson because I own two businesses and one of my favorite sayings is there is nothing common about sense.
I would like to leave you with one of my favorite quotes “Success is a Journey, not a destination.”
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I’ve been collecting quotations that are meaningful to me, as well. One of my favorites is:
“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
- Mario Andretti
And on a more serious note:
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke
Thanks for the post. I’ve added it to my bookmarks in Del.icio.us and copied many of the quotations into my “words of wisdom” folder.
This was a good inspirational list to read first thing this morning–it made me stop reading my other emails, and go start the project I had planned for this morning!
When it comes to perfectionism and paralysis, my personal favorite is:
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly”.
If it’s truly worth doing–just do it! If you won’t attempt a project because you don’t think you have the skill to do it ‘perfectly’–then you’ll never perfect your skill!
And this from the late Gary Halbert: “Nothing is impossible for a person who refuses to listen to reason”.
Thanks for your list and other help.
Hey Jo Han,
Been a while.. actually since your baby was born I think..
Hope he is doing well.. and driving you nuts.. LOL..
From a Mother of four boys…..
Loved the quotes.. awesome..
I bought Joe Vitales’ Hypnotic Marketing New version this week, had no idea
you had co-authored books with him.. Cool..
“Make Your 2008, Great”
my quote
All the best, hope fatherhood is going well…
Cheers,
Dianne in NZ
common sense is as rare as genius. True True if we all used common sense we just might reveal genius in each of ourselves
Of course, this one would be my cornerstone -
“Common sense is as rare as genius.†– Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I appreciate many, if not most of these!
And this one -
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.†-Winston Churchill
is unfortunately too true in today’s world. Sigh…
Thanks for sharing!
Carole
CommonSenseLiving.com
Thanks Jo Han.
From your favourite quotes, I like these most:-)
“A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.†– Chinese Proverb
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.†– Sir Isaac Newton
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.†-Winston Churchill
I am one of the new members, and this time I will not get analysis paralysis as I have done many times in the last few years. Thanks for the quotes. I have no specific favorite for they are all good. One in particular has meaning for me today, “Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.†– Bertrand Russell. Thanks!
Excellent post!
Some very inspirational quotes, including a long time favorite of mine-
“100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.†– Wayne Gretzky
Thanks for sharing.
Energy can not be oblivated from exsistance, and absolute power is boreing, no doubt why we made this illusion of reality, nothing can be proven beyond the shadow of doubt or the game of life would bore us as we are in our real state.
I am you and you are me we are all different parts of the same energy that is everything that exsists, knowing it all allows us to realise that life is nothing more than a fantisy made by us for us to enjoy the feelings that come along with the illusion of humanity. How do you know without any doubt that your not makeing your illusion of life up as you go along? For all you realy know nothing is any more real than that body you think is you.
Hi Jo Han, I like this one:
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I don’t know which half.†– John Wanamaker
pretty much sums up 99% of all marketers. I don’t know who the lucky 1% is….
Nice post and good list.
Stuart Stirling
http://www.stuartastirling.com
Hi Jo Han, This one would be my favorite..
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I don’t know which half.†– John Wanamaker
This pretty much sums up 99% of all marketers. Whoever the other 1% is, is either very lucky or spends too much money on advertising to care…
Stuart Stirling
http://www.stuartastirling.com
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Hey Jo Han,
Thanks! That’s a lot of inspiration all thrown at us, very inspiring indeed.
Fact is that most, if not all, of these quotes really plays an important part in shaping
our thinking! Very often we feel like giving up but then when you come across a quote like this…
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost
almost 300 games. I’ve failed over and over and over again
in my life. And that is why I succeed.” (Michael Jordan)
…then you begin to reconsider success.
Gerald Low
“Common sense is as rare as genius.†– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lets admit it, the truth hurts… Thank you jo…..
How are you all today? Loving your post a lot! I My son told me about your blog. Cool!