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"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."

"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."

"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."

"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."

"The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print."

"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge."
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"Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do."

"A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen."

"Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part."

"We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30."

"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'."
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