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From: "Matthew S. Whiting" <whiting@epix.net>
Subject: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better.
Date: 1997/11/24
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Date: 1997-11-24T00:00:00+00:00
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Mark Wilden wrote:
> 
> Richard Kenner wrote:
> >
> > I would not hire marketting people or manager who were dishonest
> > either.
> 
> I won't comment on managers, but the entire goal of marketers is to be
> dishonest. They're trying to make people buy stuff they don't want. It's
> that simple.

And simply wrong.  Marketers try to get people to want in the future
things they don't want today.  SALES people try to get people to buy
stuff they don't want.  There IS a difference.  FYI - I'm neither a
marketer nor a salesperson, just a lowly engineering manager.