John Morgan > Quotes

“What you do may not be unique, but you are. This is why putting your personality into your brand is so important. You're not in a niche or industry that is without competition. The only difference between you and your competition is your brand.”
― John Morgan, Brand Against the Machine: How to Build Your Brand, Cut Through the Marketing Noise, and Stand Out from the Competition

“Guénon and Evola, consistently with most other modern spiritual figures, identified the age we are living in now as the final age, or Kali Yuga, as it is called in both Hinduism and Buddhism. In the ancient Scandinavian religion, the equivalent age was the Wolf Age. Lest this seems like just some metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, let me quote a few examples from the Hindu scriptures that describe the characteristics of Kali Yuga:

In Kali Yuga, wealth alone will be considered the sign of a man’s good birth, proper behavior, and fine qualities. And law and justice will be applied only on the basis of one’s power.

Men and women will live together merely because of superficial attraction, and success in business will depend on deceit. Womanliness and manliness will be judged according to one’s expertise in sex.

A person’s propriety will be seriously questioned if he does not earn a good living. And one who is very clever at juggling words will be considered a learned scholar.

He who can maintain a family will be regarded as an expert man, and the principles of religion will be observed only for the sake of reputation.

Cities will be dominated by thieves, the Vedas will be contaminated by speculative interpretations of atheists, political leaders will virtually consume the citizens, and the so-called priests and intellectuals will be devotees of their bellies and genitals.

When irreligion becomes prominent in the family, the women of the family become corrupt, and from the degradation of womanhood comes unwanted population.

These are just a few of many such examples. Whatever one thinks of Hinduism as a religion, this description certainly seems uncannily accurate in our present world.”
― John Morgan

“Design is a funny word. Some people think Design means how it looks. But, of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. —Steve Jobs”
― John Morgan, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies

“The future of branding is marketing with people, not at them.”
― John Morgan

“Murder [as] the result of a conspiracy by the ‘Establishment’ and particularly HRH Prince Philip, who used the ‘Security Services’ to carry it out.{3444} (WFJ)”
― John Morgan, How They Murdered Princess Diana: The Shocking Truth

“You must believe in yourself and you must have a work ethic that equals none.”
― John Morgan, You Can't Teach Hungry...Creating the Multimillion Dollar Law Firm

“We have to stop marketing to people the way we hate to be marketed to.”
― John Morgan, Brand Against the Machine: How to Build Your Brand, Cut Through the Marketing Noise, and Stand Out from the Competition

“With no significant political forces opposing the conversion of our world into a universal marketplace, the conflict of our time is the struggle to retain one’s humanity in an increasingly artificial world. That is the only battle that retains any genuine significance from a traditional perspective.”
― John Morgan

“Design means how something works, not how it looks – the design should evolve from the function. —James Dyson”
― John Morgan, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies

“There are essentially two ways to grow your firm; to add new practice areas in your city, or to move and expand into new cities.”
― John Morgan, You Can't Teach Hungry...Creating the Multimillion Dollar Law Firm

“In 2008 I saw opportunity like I had never seen in my life.  I remembered one of Warren Buffett’s favorite quotes.  “Be fearful when people are greedy.  Be greedy when people are fearful.”  That quote drove me.  I”
― John Morgan, You Can't Teach Vision: The Twenty-First Century Law Firm

“Good offense consists of developing business, trying cases with success, and building a good reputation within the trial community. Playing good defense means running the law firm like a business, being conservative in your spending, and worrying about tomorrow much more than about today.”
― John Morgan, You Can't Teach Hungry...Creating the Multimillion Dollar Law Firm

“Too many businesses compete on price when they should be competing on value.”
― John Morgan, Brand Against the Machine: How to Build Your Brand, Cut Through the Marketing Noise, and Stand Out from the Competition

“I'm breathing with a light and free feeling. It's a feeling of release and independence as I begin my European journey. Backpacking somehow sets me apart from everyone. Even in this airport. True, people here are traveling, but they each have things to do, deadlines to meet, itineraries to follow, specific things to see. Not me, I'm different. I have everywhere to go and anything to see. My destination is culture and knowledge and experience.
in 'Waking up to Winter”
― John Morgan