As quoted in "Respek" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=m1_FAsefZ6o (18 July 2004), Da Ali G Show.
2000s
“People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe”
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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British/American author and motivational speaker 1973Related quotes
“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”
Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.
As quoted by Seneca (Epistles, 94)
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
“Why do you buy [shoddy goods] if you think the quality is so poor?”
"Cheaper," [Mrs Singh] responded.
"You get what you pay for," [Inspector Singh] pointed out.
"That's what my father said when I complained about you."
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing, Cap 1
“It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.”
Source: Eating the Dinosaur
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications
Um, I’ll be telling a bunch of them here tonight.
It's Not Funny