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

"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 salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."

"Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke."

"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."

"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."

"Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record."
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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."

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

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

"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."

"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."
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