“The man with the proper imagination is able to conceive of any commodity in such a way that it becomes an object of emotion to him and to those to whom he imparts his picture, and hence creates desire rather than a mere feeling of ought.”

—  Walter Dill Scott

Source: Influencing men in business, 1911, p. 134

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