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Quotations by Subject: Advertising
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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, How to Blog for Money by Learning from Comics, SXSW 2006
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough.: Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Designing for Community with Zero-Advertising Brands, SXSW 2006
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.: Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
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)
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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 (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964


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