Scott McCloud Quotes

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

Scott McCloud

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• The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Feel
  • Comfortable
  • Customers

• When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Famous
  • Writer
  • Literary

• Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writers
  • Readers
  • Publishers

• The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Kid
  • Seriously
  • Comics

• All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Home
  • Ride
  • Nonsense

• You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Want
  • Annoying
  • Data

• The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Behavior
  • Customers

• Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Book
  • Fact
  • Publish

• I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Comics
  • Particularly
  • Embraced

• I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Idea
  • Africa
  • Nonsense

• The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Sense
  • Nonsense

• Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Heart
  • Kid
  • Comics

• Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Up
  • Career
  • Wonder

• So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Quality

• Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Customers
  • Depends

• Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Differences
  • Pay
  • Cost

• I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • World
  • Business
  • Game

• This merger is immensely attractive to us, because there was no overlap in customers or core competencies. We are now able to invest in more cities by increasing staff, sales and services.

  

  John Reed
  • Cities
  • Customers
  • Attractive

• Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ability
  • Impact
  • Strategy

• What will you create that will make the world more awesome?

  

  Brad Montague
  • Create
  • Awesome

• Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Justice
  • Equality
  • Brotherhood

• I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Customers
  • Nonsense
  • Comics