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Quotations on Advertising
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~ Bill Cosby
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. ~ George Santayana
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~ George Orwell
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. ~ Stuart Chase
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ~ Samuel Johnson - The Idler, 1759
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ~ Norman Douglas - South Wind, 1917
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald - Save me the waltz, 1932
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing. ~ Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media, 1964
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. ~ Dean Acheson
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. ~ Fred Allen
Advertising my be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~ Stephen Leacock
The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising. ~ Albert Lasker
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. ~ Derby Brown
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. ~ Robert W. Sarnoff
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. ~ Steuart H. Britt
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. ~ Sinclair Lewis
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