“Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.”
Stanley Marcus (1905–2002) American businessman
“The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so.”
— Aleister Crowley, book Magick Without Tears
Ch XXI.
Magick Without Tears (1954)
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