Siimon Reynolds Quotes
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Always employ too few people.
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Always ask ‘What will my industry look like ten years from now?’
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Money is a tool to get things done.
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Do more than you’re paid for.
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I had a quote up on the wall from someone that said, ‘Be realistic – expect a miracle’.
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The only ship that’s sure of sinking is a partnership.
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Fear of failure has been a primary motivator for me for a long time.
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I decided that what I really hated was school and the last thing I wanted to do was go to university. But I wanted to be financially successful. So I made a list of the jobs I thought I could make money in without going to uni. One of them was advertising, one was real estate, and one was stockbroking… in the end I chose advertising.
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The great thing about advertising is that they don’t care. It’s about your folio and nothing else.
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Place your alarm clock away from your bed.
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Ready. Fire. Aim.
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Look for industries which might converge with yours.
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Think 80/20.
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Don’t take more than 20 minutes off for lunch.
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Be part of the 3% who write down life goals.
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Steal ideas from other industries and areas.
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Have no more than three major goals a year.
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Model successful people.
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Read biographies.
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Eat mainly vegetables and fruit
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Write your ‘To Do’ list the night before.
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Get up no later than 6am.
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Reply to letters on the same paper they are written on.
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Never underestimate the power of a smile.
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Don’t watch TV for more than an hour a week.
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Keep meetings under ten minutes.
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Look for wrong assumptions in your industry.
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When they zig, you zag.
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Advertising is a great business to be at the top of, but not to be at the bottom of.
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I remember asking for $20,000 and thinking that if I could earn $20,000 a year, that’s all I could ever need in life. I remember the guy said to me, ‘So, you want $20,000?’ and I said, ‘Yes’. And then he said, ‘Is that before or after tax’. And I didn’t understand tax so I went, ‘Oh before tax’. If only I’d said after, I would’ve increased my salary. I was too dumb to work that out, but I soon learned.
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I had to avoid getting sacked for not being any good. So I started working really long hours and started getting really passionate about the business, really passionate.
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Here I was, covered in pimples still and running this big creative department of this medium-size advertising agency.
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[On running a medium sized advertising agency at 21 years of age] What was great about tit was that at that age you don’t know what can’t be done.
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[On his Grim Reaper bowling ball commercial for AIDS in 1987] I was very lucky that some of my ads did well… We did the AIDS ad, which was amazing.
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No-one rang to offer me a job. So my only alternative was to open my own agency… which I did at [age] twenty-three.
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I think that when you’re in a meeting and you are genuinely passionate, not pretending, there is an electricity in how you speak, there’s a magnetism in how you carry yourself that is intoxicating on a subliminal level for a lot of people.
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Coming at the bottom of the class wasn’t fun.
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I get up in the morning and think about how great a human being can be.
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My question to myself is, ‘How can I be greater?’
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Eat till you’re only two-thirds full.
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