Sam Altman Quotes

We've got over 1 million merchants who have claimed their businesses on Foursquare, running specials and doing other things. What we want to do is take these tools used by the 50-100 national retailers and make them accessible to our 1 million merchants. Then you've got something really powerful.

The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated.

I think that every artist - or anybody that's in business - could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

For all we are a manufacturer, we've always had a lot of communication with the consumer.

Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.

When you have a CEO who is an ex-CMO, that is going to put the marketing tool kit front and center.

Music is a universal language and really an interesting way for a brand to expand their consumer horizon.

Actually - and ironically - people aren't really interested in a new brand form or flavor as much as they are interested in how a brand can change, impact, or improve their lives. They want brands around them that make them feel special and provide some social cache or confidence.

If you tell your story well, it can help attract customers; it can help people understand your business better, and you are more approachable as a business and a company.

Amobee has an enviable track record of success supporting the world's leading brands with their cutting edge, end-to-end mobile advertising solution.

Promoters know the business.

Location-based services are here to stay, as it focuses on high relevance and contextual offering to the end user. This means a user sees what he needs with immediate sense and meaning to him.

When I opened Chanel in London, they were happy. People would go, 'Oh, I just came in to see it. It's so beautiful.' And you leave with a positive attitude toward the brand. Now, you don't really get that online. You don't go, like, 'Wow.'

When you think about brands and movie studios and everybody who is trying to reach millennials, having a captive audience in the back of Lyft or an Uber is a pretty great place.

There are product placements. I worked with a lot of companies like Universal and Wonderful Pistachios.

It was our belief we should have a customer base and that the catwalk was actually supporting and increasing the business.

As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren't able to turn them into paying customers?

Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.

I love the way that girls turn up at our boutiques knowing all the names of the dresses, and that was happening before we launched our brand Pinterest board.

By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.

If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.

We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something.

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

Marketing is what gets you noticed.

Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.