D. W. Brogan Quotes

Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?

Your day is your week is your month is your year.

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.

Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

If you can't find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works.

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

Tell more people that you love them.You never know how much they might need it.

Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.

No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog.

Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

If you're not on the right path, get off it.

Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.

The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people's priorities.

In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.

For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.

Never try to be a thought leader. There's no value in that. Instead, try to add value.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.

Mission + tools. That’s really what it takes to have focus...you fail at focus because whatever you are trying to focus on isn’t important enough to you.

Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.

Guide them where you want them to interact with you.

Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.

Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.

A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero.

When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.

There's no value to working hard on being really popular.

While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.

Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money.

My bank does not accept likes.

We exist to serve our community. That's the most important mind-set to maintain.

If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.

Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.

Don't ever think that somebody isn't important or not good enough, because you never know which way the road will take you.

An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future.

You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.