A Quote by Paul Arden

We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

Paul Arden

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Paul Arden
American - Author
April 7, 1940 - April 2, 2008

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Mark Cuban

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Mark Jackson

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Dorothy L. Sayers

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Mark Shapiro

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Ian MacKaye

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Dave Pirner

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