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One illusion is that you can industrialize a country by building factories. You don’t. You industrialize it by building markets. – Paul G. Hoffman

The meek shall inherit the world, but they’ll never increase market share. – William G. McGowan

I know that half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; but I can never find out which half. – John Wannamaker

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Leacock

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs,
The homely hen lays one.
The codfish never cackles
To tell you what she’s done.
And so we scorn the codfish
While the humble hen we prize,
Which only goes to show you
That it pays to advertise. – anonymous

If you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill this dog – January 1973 cover of National Lampoon

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