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A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.


William Bernbach

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WILLIAM LAUD The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE