Ken Goldstein Quotes

#1. Forgive me, Paul, and I do get a little abrupt from time to time, but titles don't mean a damn thing. Your boss can give you a title. Your boss can't make people listen to you. You have to earn that. It doesn't sound like you get that yet.

Ken Goldstein

#2. People. Products. Profits. In that order.

Ken Goldstein

#3. Don't break your promise. Sweat the small stuff. Love your brand. Love your customers.

Ken Goldstein

#4. If you say it, mean it. If you mean it, do it.

Ken Goldstein

#5. We have FCC, abandoned alimony payments, assault and battery, Homeland Security escalation, and that's before we invite the IRS to take a walk on your wild side.

Ken Goldstein

#6. I know you engineer types are excellent with mathematics, much better than I ever will be, but I do know the difference between a tiny pail of coins and big bucket of dollars. How can I take the pail when I am worth the bucket?

Ken Goldstein

#7. Who could have guessed at the dawn of the 21st century, the seminal technology upon which 5000 years of modern science had resulted was the click?

Ken Goldstein

#8. Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesn't. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of one's craft, and there is the exponential lifting of performance by the selfless combination of efforts.

Ken Goldstein

#9. It's not enough to love your product. You have to love your customers, too, every single one - those who complain the most are the ones who control the keys to your survival.

Ken Goldstein

#10. I don't want other companies, I want this one,' insisted Seidelmeyer. 'I want all of their revenue and none of their people.'
'None of their people?' echoed Feretti. 'That's good margin.

Ken Goldstein