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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."

"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."

"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."

"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."

"For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions."

"Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles."

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
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"I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range."

"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

"Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop."

"Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology."

"Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future."

"If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time."

"The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams."
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