Vance Packard quotes

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. (Vance Packard)
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. View quote
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. View quote
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's. View quote
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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. View quote
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At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on. View quote
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In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling has reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard. View quote
Vance Packard

Vance Packard

Occupation: American Writer
Born: May 22, 1914
Died: December 12, 1996
Quotes count: 7

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