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As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.

Raymond Loewy
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The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph.

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There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

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Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

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I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

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Design is too important to be left to designers.

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Good design is not an applied veneer.

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The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.

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Ugliness does not sell.

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It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

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