Paul Arden famous quotes

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules
-- Paul Arden

#Problem #Solve

Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.
-- Paul Arden

#Powerful #People #Rich

The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.
-- Paul Arden

#Thinking #World

Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far as the young one. He chips and putts equally well. And will probably have a better knowledge of the course. So why does he take the extra stroke that denies him victory? Experience. He knows the downside, what happens if it goes wrong, which makes him more cautious. The young player is either ignorant or reckless to caution. That is his edge. It is the same with all of us. Knowledge makes us play safe. The secret is to stay childish.
-- Paul Arden

#Winning #Player #Secret

It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.
-- Paul Arden

#Regret #Done

The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually you will become stale. If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish. Somehow the more you give away the more comes back to you.
-- Paul Arden

#Giving #Looks #Hoarding

Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.
-- Paul Arden

#Regret #Persons

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.
-- Paul Arden

#People #Decision #Safe

Don't be afraid of silly ideas.
-- Paul Arden

#Silly #Ideas

Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well.
-- Paul Arden

#People #Wells

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.
-- Paul Arden

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Unlikely

Without having a goal it's difficult to score.
-- Paul Arden

#Goal #Score #Difficult

It's not how good you are it's how good you want to be
-- Paul Arden

#Greatness #Want

Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.
-- Paul Arden

#Ideas #Undone

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.
-- Paul Arden

#Criticism #Praise

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.
-- Paul Arden

#People #Ego #Great People

Be unfashionable. Take risks.
-- Paul Arden

#Risk

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.
-- Paul Arden

Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
-- Paul Arden

#School #People #Succeed

Don't look for the next opportunity, the one you have in hand is the opportunity
-- Paul Arden

#Opportunity #Hands #Next

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.
-- Paul Arden

#Perceive

Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.
-- Paul Arden

#Dark #Men #Light

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?
-- Paul Arden

#Party #People #World

having too many ideas is not always a good thing.
-- Paul Arden

#Ideas #Good Things

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.
-- Paul Arden

#Sacrifice #Want #Be Good

Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.
-- Paul Arden

#Dream #Decision #Bad Decision

Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go.
-- Paul Arden

#Running #Perfection #Waiting

Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.
-- Paul Arden

#Responsibility #Appreciate #People

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.
-- Paul Arden

#People #Risk #Trying

We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.
-- Paul Arden

#Smell #Car #People

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.
-- Paul Arden

#Self #Want #Clients

Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it’s difficult to score.
-- Paul Arden

#Goal #Vision #Want

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.
-- Paul Arden

#Play #Missing #Want

It's never the next brief, it's ALWAYS THIS brief .
-- Paul Arden

#Next #Advertising

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…
-- Paul Arden

#Running #Perfect #People

i wish means: would it be nice if.. i want means: if i want it enough i will get it.
-- Paul Arden

#Nice #Mean #Wish

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?
-- Paul Arden

#Past #People #Risk

We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.
-- Paul Arden

#Business #Perfect #Waiting

Life's all about 'me' anyway
-- Paul Arden

You will become whoever you want to be.
-- Paul Arden

#Want