Advertising May Be Described As The Science Of Arresting The Human Intelligence Long Enough To Get Money From It.
- Stephen Leacock
You Can Tell The Ideals Of A Nation By Its Advertisements.
- Norman Douglas
Many A Small Thing Has Been Made Large By The Right Kind Of Advertising.
- Mark Twain
I Like Ads. It’s Not That We Don’t Like Ads, We Just Don’t Like Ads When They Are Out Of Place.
- Bill Barnes
Advertising Is The Modern Substitute For Argument; Its Function Is To Make The Worse Appear The Better.
- George Santayana
Half The Money I Spend On Advertising Is Wasted; The Trouble Is I Don’t Know Which Half.
- John Wanamaker
The Very First Law In Advertising Is To Avoid The Concrete Promise And Cultivate The Delightfully Vague.
- Bill Cosby
Advertisements… Contain The Only Truths To Be Relied On In A Newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
If People Aren’t Going To Talk About Your Product, Then It’s Not Good Enough.
- Jeffrey Kalmikoff
Chess Is As Elaborate A Waste Of Human Intelligence As You Can Find Outside An Advertising Agency.
- Raymond Chandler
What Is The Difference Between Unethical And Ethical Advertising? Unethical Advertising Uses Falsehoods To Deceive The Public; Ethical Advertising Uses Truth To Deceive The Public.
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Advertising Is A Valuable Economic Factor Because It Is The Cheapest Way Of Selling Goods, Particularly If The Goods Are Worthless.
- Sinclair Lewis
I Read No Newspaper Now But Ritchie’s, And In That Chiefly The Advertisements, For They Contain The Only Truths To Be Relied On In A Newspaper.
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