Baer Quotes & Sayings

Activate your fans, don't just collect them like baseball cards. — Jay Baer

Social media is an ingredient, not an entree. — Jay Baer

The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive. — Jay Baer

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction. — Will Christopher Baer

If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right! — Jay Baer

He has the expression of someone who wishes the rain would stop. — Will Christopher Baer

You have to understand not just what your customers need, but how and where they prefer to access information. — Jay Baer

The development of the Vertebrate proceeds from an axis upward, in two layers, which coalesce at the edges, and also downward, in two layers, which likewise coalesce at the edges. Thus two main tubes are formed, one above the other. During the formation of these, the embryo separates into strata, so that the two main tubes are composed of subordinate tubes which enclose each other as fundamental organs, and are capable of developing into all the organs. — Karl Ernst Von Baer

An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out. — Arthur Baer

A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does not recede, a color band which does not obtrude, a white square or rectangle which does not move back or forth, to or fro, or up or down; there is also a painted white exterior frame band which is edged round the edge to the black. Every part is painted and contiguous to its neighbor; no part is above or below any other part. There is no hierarchy. There is no ambiguity. There is no illusion. There is no space or interval (time). — Jo Baer

The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet. — Will Christopher Baer

Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded? — Paul Frank Baer

Even before phones and e-mail this county could spread a story faster than a hooker could spread K-Y Jelly," Tessa added with a perfectly straight face. — Linda McMaken

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well. — Robert Baer

She's generous to a fault - if it's her own. — Arthur Baer

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop. — Arthur Baer

so we went up the hill. then we got into my room and I looked at them both. my pure and beautiful slim and magic little girl glorious fuck with the hair dangling down to the asshole, and next to her the tragedy of the ages: slime and horror, the machine gone wrong, frogs tortured by little boys and head-on car collisions and the spider taking in the ball-less buzzing fly and the landscape brain of Primo Carnera going down under the dull playboy guns of cocksure Maxie Baer - new heavyweight champ of America - I, I rushed at the Tragedy of the Ages - that fat slob of accumulated shit. — Charles Bukowski

Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger. — Jo Baer

What I created got abominated. — Ralph H. Baer

All superheroes had pretty much the same problem. Batman was flash and sexy compared to Bruce Wayne and even Robin was a lot cooler than Dick Grayson. As for Superman, well. It was a fucking miracle that Clark Kent had never committed suicide. — Will Christopher Baer

As a designer, you have to think in time and see things in sequence. You have to see information as a narrative form - Paul Mijksenaar quoted by Kim Baer — Paul Mijksenaar

There was something about Mikie that made me want to trust him. It might have been the Centanario Anejo. — Nadja Baer

Every company is its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper. — Jay Baer

Disappear, she says. I love that word. — Will Christopher Baer

His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest. — Arthur Baer

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East. — Robert Baer

You must fight social media fire with social media water. — Jay Baer

Customers are ninjas now. They are stealthily evaluating you right under your nose. — Jay Baer

Arms and legs thrashing. The hammer of blood.
I'm coming, says Jude.
And holds her breath. Orgasm is brief, nonviolent.
What color? I say
Devastating blue, she says. The pale blue eyes of a murdered boy.
Very nice.
You remembered, she says.
Jude comes in colors. How could I forget. Trembling blond orgasms that seem to piss her off and rare pink orgasms that never end. Chemical red orgasms that fill her with guilt and perfect orgasms black as fresh earth. Orgasms shadowy and gray that may or may not cause her to weep and orgasms the color of bruised skin, orgasms that fade from purple to yellow and remain visible for days. — Will Christopher Baer

The commonplace becomes exceptional when God is involved. — Judy Baer

You must market your marketing. — Jay Baer

My eyelashes tickled the peephole. from Fogged Up Fairy Tale (Summer 2014) — Denise Baer

Out in the distance I could hear an animal wailing as though the air curled around the sound and flipped it around. — Denise Baer

God designed each one of us for His purpose-and God doesn't make junk. — Judy Baer

If you help someone, you may create a customer for life. — Jay Baer

Social media allows big companies to act small again. — Jay Baer

The difference between Selling and Helping is just two letters. — Jay Baer

Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?
I try to smile. What's the difference, really. — Will Christopher Baer

There is a very fine line between listening and stalking. — Jay Baer

Are you going to tell me who she is?" she asked.
"A psychiatrist," Nick shot back.
"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, it's about time," his mother replied. — Neal Baer

Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq. — Robert Baer

Content pays an ongoing information annuity that other forms of marketing simply do not. — Jay Baer

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. — Arthur Baer

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on. — Arthur Baer

The best photographs are made by the best people. — Morley Baer

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular. — Arthur Baer

Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. — Jay Baer

95% of millennials say their friends are the most credible source of product information. — Jay Baer

In a city like San Francisco, you can throw a rock out your front door and hit someone with a nice ass and pretty brown eyes. But to find someone you want to fall asleep with, someone you want to breathe and dream next to, is terribly rare. — Christopher Baer Will

God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called. — Judy Baer

Every page of content you've created could be the first interaction with your web site.Think of every page as a home page. — Jay Baer

It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away. — Will Christopher Baer

In 2012, 40 of the top companies to work for were also among the top companies in social media. — Jay Baer

You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country. — Arthur Baer

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. — Arthur Baer

Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing ... Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light. — Jo Baer

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs. — Arthur Baer

I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars. — Will Christopher Baer

I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work, and we're getting the information not from torture, but simply from questioning people. — Robert Baer

The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to the success of business today. — Jay Baer

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness. — Arthur Baer

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. — Arthur Baer

In social media marketing, average is no longer adequate. — Jay Baer

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. — Arthur Baer

If you want to measure social media ROI, stop wasting your time doing software demos and attending webinars. Just figure out what you want to track, where you can track it, think about both current customers and new customers, and go do it. — Jay Baer

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it. — Robert Baer

No one comes to your website to be entertained. They have questions they think you can answer. Content answers questions. — Jay Baer

Everything ultimately comes down to trust. — Jay Baer

The goal is not to be good at social media, the goal is to be good at business because of social media. — Jay Baer

A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you. — Will Christopher Baer

True advocacy is born from culture, not technology or marketing. — Jay Baer

We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights. — Jay Baer

Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood. — Will Christopher Baer

Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it. — Jay Baer

The first rays of the sun peeked up over the horizon and licked the village. "Fire," said Gein in an excited whisper. — Tim Baer

If you create Youtility, your customers will keep you close. — Jay Baer

The entirety of the world's knowledge is in your pants right now. — Jay Baer

Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer. — Jay Baer

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot. — Will Christopher Baer

Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop. — Will Christopher Baer

Treat your family like guests and your guests like family. — Judy Baer

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us. — Robert Baer

Smart marketing is about help not hype. — Jay Baer

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope. — Arthur Baer

If [the heavyweights] become champions they begin to have inner lives like Hemingway or Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy or Faulkner, Joyce or Melville or Conrad or Lawrence or Proust ... Dempsey was alone and Tunney could never explain himself and Sharkey could never believe himself nor Schmeling nor Braddock, and Carnera was sad and Baer an indecipherable clown; great heavyweights like Louis had the loneliness of the ages in their silence, and men like Marciano were mystified by a power which seemed to have been granted them. With the advent, however, of the great modern Black heavyweights, Patterson, Liston, then Clay and Frazier, perhaps the loneliness gave way to what it had been protecting itself against - a surrealistic situation unstable beyond belief. Being a Black heavyweight champion in the second half of the twentieth century (with Black revolutions opening all over the world) was now not unlike being Jack Johnson, Malcolm X and Frank Costello all in one ... — Joyce Carol Oates

True influence drives action, not just awareness. — Jay Baer

Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on the temple of the gods. To know himself, Linnaeus declared to be the essential indisputable distinction of man above all other creatures. I know, indeed, in study nothing more worthy of free and thoughtful man than the study of himself. For if we look for the purpose of our existence, we cannot possibly find it outside ourselves. We are here for our own sake. — Karl Ernst Von Baer

Focus On How To Be Social, Not On How To Do Social. — Jay Baer

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no. — Robert Baer

It turned out that while you were searching for the meaning of life, you missed the experience of being alive. — Ruth A. Baer

Stop trying to be amazing and start being useful. — Jay Baer

The biggest benefit of doing an interview podcast is the relationships you build. — Jay Baer

Text is the gateway drug to real time marketing. — Jay Baer

Content is the emotional and informational bridge between commerce and consumer. — Jay Baer

The future of marketing isn't big data, it's big understanding. — Jay Baer

All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along. — Karl Ernst Von Baer

If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger. — Jay Baer

There's a lot of fear-mongering about "losing control" of your brand online, when, in fact, you've got control over as much as you always have: how you present your business and how you act. — Jay Baer

Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine — Jay Baer

I'm cold, Religiously cold. — Will Christopher Baer