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    In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that read more

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

by Barbra Streisand Found in: Audiences Quotes,
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Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is read more

Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.

by Ernest A. Jones Found in: Commerce Quotes,
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans read more

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

by James Madison Found in: Commerce Quotes,
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in read more

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

by Billy Wilder Found in: Audiences Quotes,
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If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to read more

If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown

by Adam Walinsky Found in: Audiences Quotes,
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. read more

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

by Soren Kierkegaard Found in: Commerce Quotes,
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Commerce Quotes,
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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising read more

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

by Fairfax Cone Found in: Audiences Quotes,
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For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor read more

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Commerce Quotes,
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