To get into the consumer’s mind, you have to sacrifice.
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Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
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It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.
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What’s your brand? If you can’t answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand’s in trouble.
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It’s the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product.
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Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
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You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
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An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
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If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program.
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War and marketing have many similarities.
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IBM didn’t invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect’s mind.
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But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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It normally takes decades to build a brand… It’s the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth.
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Each year we send more and receive less.
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