Author Archives: Roy H. Williams

A Monday Morning Memo for the Friends and Clients of The Wizard of Ads Judging from your enthusiastic response to last week’s MMMemo, “Priorities,” from James Cramer, I thought that you might also enjoy this one from my friend, William O’Shaughnessy, The Squire of Westchester. Roy April 28, 1994: He was always alone. Richard M. &hellip Continue reading »

A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads My mother and I pack our few possessions into boxes we have found behind the grocery store, then drive to the house we’ve rented in the poorest part of town. I stack the boxes on the kitchen floor, then go in search of the sweet fragrance &hellip Continue reading »

A Monday Morning Memo for the Clients and Friends of Williams Marketing “I don’t know whether you have ever seen a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, &hellip Continue reading »

A Monday Morning Memo for the Clients and Friends of Williams Marketing Orphaned at the age of 7, she’s a black, self-made millionaire who offers powerful advice to all who will listen. “There is no royal flower-strewn path to success,” she once commented, “and if there is, I’ve not found it. If I have accomplished &hellip Continue reading »

by John Milton This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heav’n’s Eternal King, Of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing That He our deadly forfeit should release, And with His Father work us a &hellip Continue reading »

A Monday Morning Memo for the Clients and Friends of Williams Marketing Twice each day, Mocatta, Pixley, Montagu, Nathan, and “Yankee” meet at Nathan’s place on St. Swithin’s Lane in London. During these meetings, each of them will raise and lower little Union Jack flags until the glorious moment arrives when all five flags are &hellip Continue reading »

A Monday Morning Memo for the Friends of the Wizard of Ads Using magnetic-resonance imaging to peek into the inner workings of the human brain, Harvard Medical School recently published a study indicating that certain parts of the brains of musicians grow an average of 7 percent larger than their non-musical peers. In a simultaneous &hellip Continue reading »

A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads Not yet thirty, Billie is a self made millionaire. He doesn’t drink, smoke or dance, and he gives lavishly to local and state government. Everyone wants Billie’s opinion. Even the President of the United States solicits Billie’s advice. Billie is on top of the world. He &hellip Continue reading »

A Monday Morning Sequel for the Friends of Williams Marketing Last week, I told you about an exchange of secret rituals between the Garcia brothers and me one rainy day in Toronto. I ended the memo by asking you to send in your own secret rituals for me to share with the MMMemo family. Space &hellip Continue reading »

A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads A Mellow Monday Morning Memo for a Lazy Labor Day Weekend Ray Bard is the owner of Bard Press, widely considered to be the most prestigious publisher of business books in America. Like you and I, Ray Bard lives a frantic, hurly-burly life with far too &hellip Continue reading »