Paul Arden Quotes & Sayings

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity. — Paul Arden

Do not covet your ideas. — Paul Arden

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

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

I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling. — Paul Arden

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

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

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

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

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

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked. — Paul Arden

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

Be unfashionable. Take risks. — Paul Arden

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

The more strikingly visual your presentation is, the more people will remember it. And more importantly, they will remember you. — Paul Arden

Having too many ideas is not always a good thing. — Paul Arden

Don't give a speech. Put on a show. — Paul Arden

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

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

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication. — Paul Arden

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of ... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim ... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible. — Paul Arden

We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else. — Paul Arden

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

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

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

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

whatever you think, think the opposite — Paul Arden

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

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

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

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese — Paul Arden

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

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

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism. — Paul Arden

DO IT, THEN FIX IT AS YOU GO. — Paul Arden

Getting what you want means making the decisions you need to make to get what you want.
Not the decisions those around you think you should make.
Making the safe decision is full, predictable and elads nowhere new.
The unsafe decision causess you to think and respond in a way you hadn't thought of.
And that thought will lead to other thoughts which will help you achieve what you want.
Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a plce where others only dream of being. — Paul Arden

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

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

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

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

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

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality ... Experience is the opposite of being creative. — Paul Arden

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist. — Paul Arden

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

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

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

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

Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?
People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future).
Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are. — Paul Arden

For a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money. — Paul Arden

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

RESIGN! It's the way to show you mean business.
If people constantly reject your ideas/ what you have to offer, resign.
You can't keep fighting and losing that makes you a problem.
If you are good, and right for the job, resignation will not be accepted.
You'll be re-signed in your own term.
If they accept your resignation, you were in the wrong job, and it's better for you to move on.
It takes courage, but it is the right move. — Paul Arden

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

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

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too. — Paul Arden

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

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking. — Paul Arden