"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
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"Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.“
-David Ogilvy
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