Nobody Ever Went Broke Underestimating The Intelligence Of The American People Definition

Americans, as a group, are not especially intelligent and can be readily entertained or fooled to produce financial benefit for someone.

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Origin of Nobody Ever Went Broke Underestimating The Intelligence Of The American People

  • Widely attributed to American author and social critic H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) but not found exactly verbatim in his published works, so the source and original form of this expression are not known with absolute certainty.Likely a nearly verbatim paraphrase of: "No one in this world, so far as I know... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

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