Quote by Marshall McLuhan
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it a

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan

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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. – Marshall McLuhan

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Sell cheap and tell the truth. – Rose Blumkin

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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. – Plutarch

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Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls. – Hilaire Belloc

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Buying is a profound pleasure. – Simone de Beauvoir

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