When I write an advertisement, I don’t want you to tell me that you find it ‘creative.’ I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.

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"If you are both killer and poet, you get rich."

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"If it doesn’t sell; it isn’t creative."

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"Leaders grasp nettles."

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"Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues."

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"The world is changed by your example, not your opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

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"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

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"There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation."

- James E. Faust

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"Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother’s love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child’s trusting mind and heart? As a mother, you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child’s special talents and unique capacities."

- Richard G. Scott

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"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."

- Jeff Bezos

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