He also long ago realised an important truth you cannot lay flattery on too thick.
How does a company differentiate in a business where flattery gets you no where?
The emails start as they continue: With Weiss repeatedly dousing Weiner with ego-stroking flattery.
His flattery of stars-to-be was as nothing compared with his wooing of his Hollywood favourites.
He takes both as flattery, not criticism, and continues to combine church and state without apology.
Imitation may be the purest form of flattery, but it can also get you sued.
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Everybody loves a winner, and imitation, as we know, is the highest form of flattery.
For many consumers, that imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery, or winning any real friends.
And as the highest form of flattery, Pinterest is now shadowed by one of the purest parasites ever.
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The effect of praise is so potent that even false flattery sways us more than we think.
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But on that day, my attempt at flattery did not go over very well with one of my students.
At every opportunity, Romney has sought to substitute sincere flattery for insincere imitation.
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Such flattery may win the listing but won't be in your best interests.
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The hospitality and the flattery worked a treat with two successive prime ministers.
As for faux fur, designers say imitation is the best form of flattery.
Censorship involves a perverse form of flattery, and in many countries classical music has lost the power to provoke.
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but saying Demand Media has science, scale and soul is a joke.
John Lewis chiefs don't appear too bothered by the spoofs - after all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
"Imitation is the best form of flattery, so welcome to the party, " said Dariusz Paczuski, senior director of Tellme consumer services.
And when Obama was contemplating a run for the U.S. Senate, he turned to Jones, using a combination of chutzpah and flattery.
And flattery from internet strangers has zero currency in the real world.
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You desperately need to learn the art of flattery a disgraceful thing in normal life but essential when you are running for office.
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You want to win the job out of merit and self-confidence, not out of ill-attempted forms of schmoozing or flattery, Taylor says.
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Briefly put, the theory proposes that Mr Murdoch learnt from his father how to use intimidation and flattery to gain political favours.
He also had the good sense to prize artistic candour over flattery.
Even some of his allies among the Governors caught a glimpse of the conflict, the flattery and fear of the whole thing.
Robert Jordan registered that he was not taking any of the flattery.
It was elemental, a gratuitous act of loving that had not involved flattery or deceit, and that was unaccompanied by shame or guilt.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, having already lost too many productive citizens to neighboring Texas, has decided that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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It measured flattery by how often "potential ingratiators" complimented the chief in a way that slightly exaggerated his or her insight about a strategic issue.
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