Mark McCormack famous quotes

03-28-2025

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.
-- Mark McCormack

#Wheels #Wagons
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
-- Mark McCormack

#Friendship #People #Equal
If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
-- Mark McCormack

#Care #Failing #Enough
Short-term can be terminal.
-- Mark McCormack

#Business #Finance #Profit
To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.
-- Mark McCormack

#Bills #Pioneers #Spirit
People retire to do what I do every day.
-- Mark McCormack

#People #Retiring
If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.
-- Mark McCormack

#Ideas #People #Trust Me
Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.
-- Mark McCormack

#Thinking #Years #Four
Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
-- Mark McCormack

#Inspirational #Quality #Commit
Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.
-- Mark McCormack

#Curves #People #Goes On
I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their suppliers, they seem content to pay top dollar for everything.
-- Mark McCormack

#Business #Cost #Pay
Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.
-- Mark McCormack

#Wrestling #Tasks #Matter
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.
-- Mark McCormack

#Reading #School #Gone
Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
-- Mark McCormack

#Inspirational #Tools #Reactions
Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.
-- Mark McCormack

#Failure #Desire #Facts
There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.
-- Mark McCormack

#Stars #Jobs #Golf

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