“ The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 3.6K
“ If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough. ”
- Jeffrey Kalmikoff- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. ”
- John Wanamaker- Copy
- 51
“ Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 238
“ You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ”
- Norman Douglas- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. ”
- Sinclair Lewis- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ”
- Stephen Leacock- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 4K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 859
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