Maurice Saatchi Quotes

• When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer’s mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

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• True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere – a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

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• There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.

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• The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

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• The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

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• Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

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• Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.

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• Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

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• Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.

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• Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king’s eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king’s eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

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• Poetry can’t cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

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• Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

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• My mother was very protective of her four boys.

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• It’s my view that human dignity – an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics – resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

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• In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It’s the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.

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• I’m instinctively a Conservative.

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• If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.

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• I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

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• Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

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• Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she ‘stood for.’

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Maurice Saatchi (26)

Birth:	12th June, 1946
Nationality:	Iraqi
Profession:	Founder, Politician

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