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Wisdom

 
  • “Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ...If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.”

    -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • “To emphasize applying trends to needs, make sure a trend is a trend and not a fad or a mistaken idea.”

    -- Kevin O’Connor
  • “Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.”

    -- David Ogilvy
  • “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”

    -- Sir Winston Churchill
  • “We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”

    -- Jean Cocteau
  • “It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.”

    -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

    -- Sir Winston Churchill
  • “You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.”

    -- Malcolm Gladwell
    
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