Brian Weiser

All the materials are more expensive.

The labor is certainly more expensive.

The cost of insuring it is more expensive.

If we're thinking about buying another company or we're divesting a particular business line, companies started feeling more comfortable to say, all right, yeah, let's go forward with that.

It's not core to the strategy for many marketers.

It probably won't be.

You have to believe it.

It's a very subjective choice.

It takes a lot to keep innovating and sometimes, OK, so you can innovate and then your innovation is copied.

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