Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
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