Martin Sorrell Quotes

#1. America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again.

Ronald Reagan

#2. If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

Lennox Lewis

#3. Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.

Martin Sorrell

#5. In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.

Martin Sorrell

#6. It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

Richard P. Feynman

#7. In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

Martin Sorrell

#8. God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

Eric Hoffer

#9. We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.

Martin Sorrell

#10. I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time.

Pete Wentz

#11. In the rain-swept afternoon
my heart discovers
the tragedy of autumn
raining from the trees.

Martin Sorrell

#12. People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

Jon Voight

#13. When I'm out for a walk or out shopping, then I'll probably have 20 different conversations a day with people about Blackburn Rovers. You can't really escape from it. I am still really proud to come from Blackburn. It is a place I still hold very dear to my heart, which is why I want to stay here.

David Dunn

#14. I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally had over their message is gone. Look at Wikileaks: you have to approach everything you write on the basis it's going to be on the front page of the newspaper.

Martin Sorrell

#15. It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs ... which is a very uncomfortable structure.

Martin Sorrell

#16. I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

Stefan Sagmeister

#17. If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

A.A. Milne

#18. If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.

Martin Sorrell

#19. Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

Mickey Mantle

#20. This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That's the riddle. That's the truth.

Alice Hoffman

#21. Marketing is an investment, not a cost.

Martin Sorrell

#22. The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with.

Martin Sorrell

#23. As castles went, this one looked as though it could be taken by a small squad of not very efficient soldiers. For defence, putting a blanket over your head might be marginally safer.

Terry Pratchett

#24. Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Johann Most

#25. To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ta-Nehisi Coates