“Inventors, scientists, engineers, and academics, in the normal pursuit of scientific knowledge, gave the world in recent times the laser, xerography, instant photography, and the transistor. In contrast, worshippers of the marketing concept have bestowed upon mankind such products as new-fangled potato chips, feminine hygiene deodorant, and the pet rock….”

- _A quote from a 1980 Harvard Business Review article titled Managing Our Way to Economic Decline . (via heyitsnoah )p. In advertising’s defense, the also gave us the Jack and Coke and the Cape Codder.

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