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    "Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again." The documented root of the idea is Bill Bernbach in 1965: great advertising makes a bad product fail faster, because it gets more people to know it's bad.

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    "Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again." The documented root of the idea is Bill Bernbach in 1965: great advertising makes a bad product fail faster, because it gets more people to know it's bad.

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    Advertising adage, popular form credited to Jerry Della Femina

    Jerry Della Femina

    Popular form credited to Jerry Della Femina; the idea documented to Bill Bernbach, Wall Street Journal interview, 1965 (traced by Barry Popik)

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