Posted by Ned Colville on September 11, 2009
1. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” (Samuel Beckett)
2. “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure…it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” (Robert Schuller)
3. “Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure.” (Kenneth Boudling)
4. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” (Henry Ford)
5. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” (Bill Cosby)
Borrowed with pride from all over the place.
Posted by Ned Colville on August 28, 2009
1. “A passive defence is deadly and does not win battles. Aggressive action is safer and more prolific of victory. Troops that have the initiative, hold the advantage. They force others to play their game.” (Lincoln C. Andrews)
2. “You need battle plans, not business plans.’ (Henry Ford)
3. “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.” (Victor Hugo)
4. “Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win wars.” (Carl von Clauswitz)
5. “Strategy win victories, but only when crowned by tactical success at the end of each move or series of moves.” (John G. Burr)
Borrowed with pride from all over the place
Posted by Giles Lury on May 4, 2009
This week’s Observer magazine had a story on Joe Corre (the son of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren) co-founder of Agent Provocateur. In it he had a little provocation for traditional marketing theory and marketers who play by the rules…
“I’m not your average businessman, am I? I don’t think people in business are that bright as a whole. All the so-called rules of business have always sounded like a load of old cr*p to me. The customer is always right. Like f*ck he is. In my experience, the customer is nearly always wrong.”
I might not agree with the language but I do agree with the sentiment that the customer certainly isn’t always right. As another innovator Henry Ford is oft quoted as saying, “If I’d asked the customer he would have said he wanted a faster horse.”
So Rule No 1 is the customer isn’t always right…
