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    "Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time." Popularly credited to Henry Ford, but he never said it: the line comes from American advertising trade press around 1910, a decade before the attribution ever appeared.

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    "Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time." Popularly credited to Henry Ford, but he never said it: the line comes from American advertising trade press around 1910, a decade before the attribution ever appeared.

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    American advertising trade press, c. 1910

    Unknown adman, c. 1910 (misattributed to Henry Ford)

    Advertising trade press, c. 1908-1916 (traced by Barry Popik); the Henry Ford and Thomas Jefferson attributions are apocryphal

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