Wally Olins famous quotes

06-03-2025

  • An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.

  • Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

  • We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

  • Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

  • All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

  • Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

  • I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

  • Personal branding is about figuring who you are and what turns you on and then monetising it

  • What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify.

  • Branding is not about what something says or what it means, but how it makes us feel.

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