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[[File:Rory.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Who would not, instinctively, want to have a nice meal with a couple of bottles of decent claret with this man?]]
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}}Vice chairman of Ogilvy, originator of its behavioural psychology unit, author of {{br|Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don’t Make Sense}} and Ted talker extraordinaire. Good chap. Would pet. 12/10.
}}Vice chairman of Ogilvy, originator of its behavioural psychology unit, author of {{br|Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don’t Make Sense}} and TED talker extraordinaire. Good chap. Would pet. 12/10.


{{Quote|Business, and government, suffers from a kind of physics envy. It wants the world to be the kind of place where the input and the change are proportionate: everything is numerically expressible and the amount you spend on something is proportionate to the scale of your success.
{{Quote|Business, and government, suffers from a kind of physics envy. It wants the world to be the kind of place where the input and the change are proportionate: everything is numerically expressible and the amount you spend on something is proportionate to the scale of your success.
:—Rory Sutherland}}
:—Rory Sutherland}}

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Vice chairman of Ogilvy, originator of its behavioural psychology unit, author of Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don’t Make Sense and TED talker extraordinaire. Good chap. Would pet. 12/10.

Business, and government, suffers from a kind of physics envy. It wants the world to be the kind of place where the input and the change are proportionate: everything is numerically expressible and the amount you spend on something is proportionate to the scale of your success.

—Rory Sutherland