35 inspiring and actionable marketing quotes from industry greats, chock-full of wisdom to help you improve your conversion rates and optimize your pages more effectively.

1. 35
Inspiring &
Actionable
MARKETING
QUOTES

2. “
People shop and learn in a
whole new way compared to
just a few years ago, so
marketers need to adapt
or risk extinction.
Brian Halligan
CEO, HubSpot
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3. “
Half the money I
spend on advertising
is wasted.
The trouble is I don't
know which half.
John Wanamaker
Marketing Pioneer
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4. “
Marketing isn't magic.
There is a science to it.
Dan Zarrella
Social Media Scientist, Hubspot
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5. DATA AND TESTING
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6. “
In God we trust.
All others bring data.
W. Edwards Deming
Statistician
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7. “
That which is measured improves.
Karl Pearson
Statistician
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8. “
We listen to our gut, then test what it says.
We gather marketing research, then test it.
We create best practices, then test them.
We listen to opinions, then test them.
We hear the advice of experts, then test it.
Chris Goward
CEO, WiderFunnel
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9. “
I don't care much for best practice.
I care about conversions.
That's why I test.
Michael Aagaard
Founder, ContentVerve.com
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10. “
Start testing and stop arguing.
Jon Correll
CEO, ConversionVoodoo
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11. “
Learn to love the data
and, for heaven's sake,
write well.
Ian Lurie
CEO, Portent
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12. “
What you prefer or
what your designer
prefers doesn't
matter if it's not
getting you
conversions.
Naomi Niles
Partner, ShiftFWD
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13. MARKETING TIPS
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14. “
Tell people what
specific action to take.
Jay Abraham
Founder, The Abraham Group
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15. “
You will get all you want
in life if you help enough
other people get what
they want.
Zig Ziglar
Motivational Speaker
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16. “
Don't be afraid to get creative and
experiment with your marketing.
Mike Volpe
CMO, Hubspot
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17. BEING A GREAT
COPYWRITER
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18. “
Content doesn't win.
Optimized content wins.
Li Evans
Online Marketing Expert
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19. “
Clarity trumps
persuasion.
Flint McGlaughlin
Director, MECLABS
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20. “
Your copy should
always be about
relationship building:
solving problems,
making life easier,
easing pain.
Roberta Rosenberg
CEO, MGP Direct
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21. “
Users don't care about you,
they care about themselves and
solutions to their problems.
Write copy accordingly.
Peep Laja
Marketing Architect, Markitekt
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22. “
Remove 50% of the copy
on your page,
then remove half of
what's left.
Steve Krug
Usability Consultant, Advanced Common Sense
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23. BEING WILLING TO
FAIL
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24. “
For B2B marketers, our
biggest obstacles are usually
complexity and fear of failure.
We need to be willing to fail.
Tim Washer
Corporate Comedian, Cisco
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25. “
Do not be embarrassed by
your failures, learn from them
and start again.
Richard Branson
Founder, Virgin Group
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26. “
I have not failed
10,000 times.
I have successfully
found 10,000 ways
that will not work.
Thomas Edison
Inventor
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27. LEARNING FROM
TESTING
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28. “
The next time you hear a
[…] myth, question it.
Ask for the proof, and ask
out loud.
Dan Zarrella
Social Media Scientist, Hubspot
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29. “
On average, people
should be more skeptical
when they see numbers.
They should be more
willing to play around
with the data themselves.
Nate Silver
Founder, FiveThirtyEight.com
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30. “
A/B Testing is about
letting the customer
do the talking,
without actually
talking.
Siddharth Deswal
Marketer, Visual Website Optimizer
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31. “
Your most unhappy
customers are your
greatest source of
learning.
Bill Gates
Founder, Microsoft
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32. “
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
Anthony Robbins
Motivational Speaker
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33. CONVERSION ADVICE
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34. “
It’s much easier to double
your business by doubling
your conversion rate than by
doubling your traffic.
Jeffrey Eisenberg
Bestselling Author
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35. “
Don't optimize for conversions,
optimize for revenue.
Neil Patel
Co-Founder, KISSmetrics
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36. “
When you want to change things,
you won't please everyone.
Sheryl Sandberg
COO, Facebook
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37. “
If you double the number of
experiments you do per year,
you're going to double your
inventiveness.
Jeff Bezos
CEO, Amazon
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38. “
Running an A/B test
without thinking of
statistical confidence is
worse than not
running a test at all.
Peep Laja
Marketing Architect, Markitekt
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39. “
Measurement is like laundry.
It piles up the longer you wait to do it.
Amber Naslund
Co-Founder, SideraWorks
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40. “
The best investment you can
make in CRO is people…
Rand Fishkin
Wizard of Moz, Moz
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41. “
If we could just get more people running very
basic A/B tests, the impact would be huge
to their bottom line, to their career, to their
status in the company.
Anne Holland
Founder, Anne Holland Ventures
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42. “
Where there is friction there is
opportunity.
Either you solve it for your
customers today or a competitor
will do it tomorrow.
Bryan Eisenberg
Bestselling Author
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