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"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."
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"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."

"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that."

"When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages."

"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."

"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."
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"Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment."


"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."


"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble."


"When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read."


"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
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