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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

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Al Ries
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: November 14
Author
Economist
Atlanta
Georgia
Marketing
Advertising
Strategy
Else
Everything
Himalayas
Timing

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