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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 ability to sense,
interpret . . . to put the very heart throbs
of a business into type, paper and ink.
Leo Burnett
Advertising is the modern substitute
for argument; its function is to make
the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
Advertising - a judicious mixture
of flattery and threats.
Northrop Frye
Advertising is salesmanship mass
produced. No one would bother
to use advertising if he could talk to all his
prospects face-to-face. But he can't.
Morris Hite
You can tell the ideals of a nation
by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas
Advertising may be described as the
science of arresting the human intelligence
long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Butler Leacock
Chess is as elaborate a waste o
human intelligence as you can find
outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
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
Advertising is a valuable economic
factor because it is the cheapest way
of selling goods, particularly if
the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis
Ads are the cave art of
the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
Advertisements... contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
Advertising is 85% confusion
and 15% commission.
Fred Allen
Advertising promotes that divine
discontent which makes people strive
to improve their economic status.
Ralph S. Butler
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
