Quotes About Insight

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

In this business, if you don't have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

We start with our consumers and spend an exorbitant amount of time talking with them, trying to figure out what's driving them, finding out where they are and how they're changing things.

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes

Marketing begins before the product is launched.

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

Data is great, but strategy is better

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.