The Ledger
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Holiday in 2016: Trump's campaign tactics will make him a horrible president
“What's made Donald Trump a great campaigner will ultimately make him a horrible president, and maybe even make it impossible for him to actually become president, because he is not actually aware of why what he's doing is working, right?”
Holiday issued a fake press release doubling his book advance to $500,000
“And then the first thing I did was I took that, and I put out a press release that said I'd sold it for a half a million dollars, because I wanted to illustrate how, like, people just trust whatever is in a press release.”
Holiday: Steve Jobs deserved to be fired from Apple in 1985
“So you look at someone like Steve Jobs, like, look, he was fired by Apple, and he deserved to be fired. He was horrible. If you were John Scully. You would have fired Steve Jobs. Because he wasn't delivering on sales, and he was unmanageable, and he was destro…”
Holiday: Effective marketing requires attacking a sacred cow
“Part of successful marketing and copywriting is picking a sacred cow and slaying it, right? And attacking some commonly held or sacred belief.”
Holiday refuses to announce projects publicly until they are completed
“So, so personally, I'm someone who, I don't articulate what I'm going to do except to myself or, you know, to like a close group of people. I don't want to get reputational advantages from what I'm theoretically going to do. I want to get credit for them when …”