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Stephen Leacock

"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

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"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

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"Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission."

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"Customers do not want a lecture from you and they certainly don't want some juvenile in a bad suit forcing his wares upon them."

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"If you don't earn their trust at the beginning, they sure as hell won't trust you with their money at the end."

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"It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman."

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"Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?"

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"In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong."

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"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

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"Did you sell to them or did you simply facilitate their buying from you, hmm? Very different scenarios, my boy, very different indeed."

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"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."

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"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."

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