Comstock Quotes & Sayings

Comstock, but I left a wrong impression with you. I don't want — Gene Stratton-Porter

The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon
Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already
lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb. — George Orwell

Some dream in color. We dream in scale. — Beth Comstock

If you had to give a name to the whole apparatus, what would you call it?" "Hmmm," Waterhouse says. "Well, its basic job is to perform mathematical calculations - like a computer." Comstock snorts. "A computer is a human being." "Well . . . this machine uses binary digits to do its computing. I suppose you could call it a digital computer." Comstock writes it out in block letters on his legal pad: DIGITAL COMPUTER. — Neal Stephenson

We seek to be as nimble as a startup. — Beth Comstock

I look upon a year lived as a year earned; and each year earned means a greater treasury of experience and power laid up against time of need. — Anna Botsford Comstock

The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them. — Beth Comstock

An American Badass doesn't start fights, but knows if he must fight, he can with courage and conviction. An American Badass doesn't steal, lie, or subvert the society that he lives in. He lives by a code of unwavering morality, and ethics that are tempered with honor, honesty, integrity, leadership, and loyalty to family, friends, and America. — Dale Comstock

When they reached her she stood on the path holding a pair of moths. Her eyes were wide with excitement , her cheeks pink, her red lips parted, and on the hand she held out to them clung a pair of delicate blue-green moths, with white bodies, and touches of lavender and straw colour. All about her lay flower-brocaded grasses, behind a deep green background of the forest, while the sun slowly sifted gold from heaven to burnish her hair. Mrs. Comstock heard a sharp breath behind her.
Oh, what a picture!" Exulted Ammon over sher shoulder. "She is absolutely and altogether lovely! Id give a small fortune for that faithfully set on canvas! — Gene Stratton-Porter

Marketing is about innovation. — Beth Comstock

You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything. — Beth Comstock

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day. — Beth Comstock

Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle. — Beth Comstock

All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth. — John Henry Comstock

An idea doesn't count if you can't use it — Beth Comstock

Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection. — Beth Comstock

In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it — Beth Comstock

The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game. — Anthony Comstock

You have to tell a story before you can sell a story. — Beth Comstock

Be where the world is going. — Beth Comstock

These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kim-berly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation. — Frederic C. Howe

She held the moth to the light. It was nearer brown than yellow,and she remembered having seen some like it in the boxes that afternoon.It was not the one needed to complete the collection,but Elnora might want it,so Mrs. Comstock held on. Then the Almighty was kind,or nature was sufficient,as you look at it,for following the law of its being when disturbed,the moth again threw the spray by which some suppose it attracts its kind,and liberally sprinkled Mrs. Comstock's dress front and arms. From that instant,she became the best moth bait ever invented. Every Polyphemus in range hastened to her,and other fluttering creatures of night followed. The influx came her way. She snatched wildly here and there until she had one in each hand and no place to put them. She could see more coming,and her aching heart,swollen with the strain of long excitement,hurt pitifully.She prayed in broken exclamations that did not always sound reverent,but never was a human soul more intense earnest. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Their combined ages were two hundred and sixty-three years. None of them had ever been out of England, fought in a war, been in prison, ridden a horse, travelled in an aeroplane, got married, or given birth to a child. There seemed no reason why they should not continue in the same style until they died. Year in, year out, nothing ever happened in the Comstock family. — George Orwell

Mind share before market share. — Beth Comstock

There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation. — Beth Comstock

She said. Mrs. Comstock did not reply. She watched the girl follow the long walk to the gate and go from sight on the road, in the bright sunshine — Gene Stratton-Porter

Barbara Comstock is a solid and reliable conservative. I've known her for many years. She'd make a great member of Congress. I am happy to join other conservatives and proudly endorse her candidacy. — Sean Hannity

of as a machine to tell the "time of day," but it may be used to time a horse or a bicycler upon a race course, and then it becomes an — George C. Comstock

Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate. — Beth Comstock

There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare — Beth Comstock

B2B does not mean boring marketing. — Beth Comstock

Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action. — Beth Comstock

What's the DNA of a marketer? We call it the 4-I's: instigator, implementer, innovator, and integrator. — Beth Comstock