Kathryn Minshew Quotes

I think I sent out some résumés for marketing jobs, and they all came back in the mail because I didn't have enough postage.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

I dont need a pardon. I need a job.

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

Some things that are true are not very useful.

Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.

One of the best ways into the business is to get a job with a production, which you can do by cold-calling or by getting your résumé out there, and also through contacts. That's where nepotism really helps.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.