Roy H. Williams
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.Collection: Intelligence
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.Collection: God
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.Collection: Knowledge
According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.Collection: Space
It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.Collection: Computers
One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.Collection: Positive
Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.Collection: Science
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.Collection: Wise
Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.Collection: Use
It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.Collection: Commitment
The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.Collection: Funny
Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.Collection: Mind
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that?Collection: Prayer
Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.Collection: Goal
Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.Collection: Thinking
The person who achieves spectacular failure has at least attempted something bold. Failure is a temporary condition. Success is likewise temporary. Life, itself, is temporary - so quit hesitating. Do something!Collection: Quitting
You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.Collection: Mirrors
Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.Collection: Preparation
The risk of insult is the price of clarity.Collection: Risk
Your heart, my friend, is the size of a stadium. If you try to fill it with small things - a new car, a vacation, a promotion at work, a bigger home, a stock portfolio - a mournful echo will fill your life. But if you fill your stadium with all of humanity and search for ways to make their lives better each day, you will find yourself in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way.Collection: Heart
Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?Collection: Life
Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.Collection: Mistake
A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.Collection: Matter
Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.Collection: Inspiration
No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.Collection: Want
String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.Collection: Nature
Most ads are about the product or the company that makes it...the best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.Collection: Company
One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we’re already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.Collection: Opinion
A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.Collection: Two Sides
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?Collection: Blessing
Live and “love to be fascinated.Collection: And Love
The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.Collection: Simple
Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.Collection: Submissive
Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.Collection: Hate
What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.Collection: Mean
Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer you wrong.Collection: Entrepreneur
The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.Collection: Often Is
Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices.Collection: Important Choices
The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.Collection: Target
Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.Collection: Business
Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.Collection: What Matters
Passion doesn't create commitment; commitment creates passion. To what are you committed?Collection: Passion
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.Collection: Music
A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.Collection: Sight
A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.Collection: Eye
People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.Collection: People
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.Collection: Artist
Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.Collection: Powerful
If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.Collection: Worried