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| As ADVERTISING blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. | George F. Will | 1941-, American Political Columnist |
| You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by ADVERTISING copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-, South African Author |
| I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. | Woodrow T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
| The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to ADVERTISING copy. | Louis Kronenberger | |
| I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. | Archibishop of Canterbury | |
| The very first law in ADVERTISING is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. | Bill Cosby | 1937-, American Actor, Comedian, Producer |
| ADVERTISING is the very essence of democracy. | Bruce Barton | 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive |
| For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise? | Bruce Burton | |
| In our factory, we make lipstick. In our ADVERTISING, we sell hope. | Charles Revson | American Businessman, Chairman of Revlon |
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| The right name is an advertisement in itself. | Claude Hopkins | |
| We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready -- even eager -- to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. | Daniel J. Boorstin | 1914-, American Historian |
| What you say in ADVERTISING is more important than how you say it. | David Ogilvy | 1911-, American Businessman, Advertising Expert |
| The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for ADVERTISING sooner or later finds itself immune to business. | Derby Brown | |
| The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the ad increases. | Dr. Charles Edwards | |
| An ADVERTISING agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. | Fred A. Allen | 1894-1957, American Radio Comic |
| As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| ADVERTISING is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| ADVERTISING is legalized lying. | H.G. Wells | 1866-1946, British-born American Author |
| How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries. | James French | |
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| ADVERTISING is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. | James R. Adams | |
| In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. It must build trust and rapport. It must understand the customer's needs, and it must provide a product that delivers the promised benefits. | Jay Levinson | American Advertising Expert, Author |
| ADVERTISING is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. | Jerry Della Femina | American Advertising Executive |
| Remove ADVERTISING, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of ADVERTISING are the enemies of freedom. | John Enoch Powell | 1912-, British statesman, |
| Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it ADVERTISING. | John Lahr | |
| Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. | Laurence J. Peter | |
| If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney. | Leo Burnett | American Marketing Expert |
| I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. | Leo Burnett | American Marketing Expert |
| Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. | Leo Burnett | American Marketing Expert |
| ADVERTISING is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. | Marshall Mcluhan | 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist |
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| Ideally, ADVERTISING aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavours. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. | Marshall Mcluhan | 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist |
| The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten by the wolf. | Marshall Mcluhan | 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist |
| The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to make it memorable. | Morris Hite | |
| No agency is better than its account executives. | Morris Hite | |
| You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. | Norman Douglas | 1868-1952, British Author |
| Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot. | Ogden Nash | 1902-1971, American Humorous Poet |
| Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. | Peter F. Drucker | 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author |
| It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent ADVERTISING is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. | Raymond Chandler | 1888-1959, American Author |
| It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- ADVERTISING, Initiative, and Dynamics. | Ren Mulford Jr. | |
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| That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts. | Samuel Goldwyn | 1882-1974, American Film Producer, Founder, MGM |
| Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| ADVERTISING is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. | Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951, First American Novelist to win the Nobel Prize for literature |
| ADVERTISING is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. | Source Unknown | |
| However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure. | Source Unknown | |
| ADVERTISING may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. | Stephen B. Leacock | 1869-1944, Canadian Humorist, Economist |
| Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting. | Stephen Bayley | 1951-, British Design Critic |
| Sanely applied ADVERTISING could remake the world. | Stuart Chase | 1888-1985, American Writer |
| Telling lies does not work in ADVERTISING. | Tim Bell | British Publicity Expert |
| One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials. | Will Rogers | 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor |
