By Hubspot

Here are some awesome quotes from our seven key founding fathers. Turns out they might have known a thing or two about marketing.

Benjamin Franklin

“Either write something worth reading about or do something worth writing about.” 

Marketing Takeaway: What a great motivator for remarkable content! Creating great content is one of the key tenets of inbound marketing.

Alexander Hamilton

“Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.” 

Marketing Takeaway: Be confident yet humble in your marketing initiatives.

John Jay

“I saw one excellency was within my reach. It was brevity, and I determined to obtain it.”

Marketing Takeaway: Keep your marketing messages concise and to the point. Brevity can be a marketer’s friend. If it only takes you 200 words to say what you have to say, use just 200 words. That said, If it takes 2,000 words to say what you have to say, use 2,000 . Just don’t get sucked into the misconception that to be remarkable, it needs to be lengthy.

Thomas Jefferson

” Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

“Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”

Marketing Takeaway: GET STUFF DONE. In the modern world of marketing, we must constantly be doing. You must always be creating content and moving with the fast pace of the web. The time you take to plan and discuss the marketing programs you’re going to implement would be much better spent actually implementing them. Furthermore, don’t dwell on the success or failure of past initiatives. Take a few moments to analyze how they performed, learn what needs to be learned from them, and move on.

James Madison

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. Philosophy is common sense with big words.”

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”

Marketing Takeaway: As marketers, we should constantly be learning about new marketing channels, developments and trends, and we should always be seeking new ways to stay ahead of the curve. Arm yourself with knowledge by staying up to date on current industry and marketing innovations.

George Washington

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

Marketing Takeaway: Don’t be afraid to experiment and try new things in your marketing. Be innovative! Stand out from your competitors. If you try something and it fails, it’s not the end of the world. Learn from it and marchforth.

Now Celebrate your marketing independence!