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856 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1967
鈥淚f I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." 鈥擧enry Ford
鈥淚f this business were split up, I would give you the land and bricks and mortar, and I would take the brands and trademarks, and I would fare better than you.鈥� 鈥擩ohn Stuart, cofounder of Quaker Oats
鈥淧eople don't want听to buy a听quarter-inch drill. They听want听a听quarter-inch听hole!鈥�
"No one wants a drill. What they want is the hole."鈥擫. E. Hobbs, advertisement for the Manhattan mutual life insurance company, 1946"
"You can't please everyone all the time"
鈥淧roducts are created in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.鈥� 鈥攕ome marketer
鈥淚n听the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.鈥� 鈥擟harles Revson of Revlon
鈥淭he aim of marketing is to make selling unnecessary.鈥� 鈥擯eter Drucker
"statement without syntax"
"The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising. 鈥擜lbert Lasker, former ceo of lord & thomas and pioneer of modern advertising
""A newspaper," Lenin once declared, "is not only a collective propagandist and collective agitator; it is also a collective organizer." Stalin called it "the most powerful weapon of our Party." Khrushchev cites it as "our chief ideological weapon." These men had more an eye to the collective form of the press mosaic, with its magical power to impose its own assumptions, than to the printed word as expressing a private point of view. "" 鈥擬arshall Mcluhan
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." 鈥擶inston Churchill
I just fell in love with the author of this book in 2012 when I took admission in MBA(Marketing). When I read a book, what I do expect is whatever written inside should be interactive enough to get into my average I.Q brain. The Philip Kotler's marketing management book is the only book of my syllabus that I've read without yawning for a moment.
All the topics have been covered, every edition get updated so well that it leaves probably no topic of marketing. Moreover the examples that's been cited in the book are from our daily life that after reading a topic it remains in mind forever.
I recommended this book to everyone, and again I am gonna say its the best book ever for marketing, interesting more than a Fiction book/ young-adult book.