My antipathy toward telemarketers is so strong that I am often rude to them.

Even so, whereas Carnegie s theory makes some sense (which is why his essay is remembered so well more than a century later), it isn t obvious that he was right to believe that successful business people are the best administrators of charitable foundations.

I keep telling marketers that this is not a threat, but an opportunity.

Just as Facebook has educated people, clumsily, about privacy controls, so marketers must educate people, ideally more elegantly, about tracking controls.

Computers can unearth these patterns, some of which seem to defy explanation, thereby enabling marketers to target consumers much more effectively.

I mean, it sometimes feels, listening to behavioral economists that they are kind of putting into place academically, what great marketers have sort of intuitively known for a long time.

Sendhil Mullainathan Yeah, we spend a lot of time talking to marketers, and I think 60 percent of it is exactly what you say, there are insights to be gleaned there.

President Hugo Chávez showed once again that he enjoys broad support among the nation s poor and desperate, and that he is miles ahead of his opposition in terms of political skill, cunning, and ruthlessness.

Interests and ideology often interact in ways so subtle that is difficult to disentangle them, the influence of interests being achieved through an unconsciously accepted ideology.

Second, in a marketplace in which consumers have more power, he thinks marketers must show more respect this means no spam, no deceit and a bias for keeping promises.

They disparage hideous strip mines and toxic tailing ponds that even superstar marketers cannot greenwash. The scale is unusual, but open pit mines and tailing ponds are normal mining operations everywhere.