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"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship."

"I don't like him. He makes me laugh. It'll wrinkle my face."

"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."
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"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga."

"I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive."

"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."

"You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place."

"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."

"Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising."

"If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising."

"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."

"The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace."

"Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them."
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