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 | "A message regarding the annual convention of the Advertising
Federation of America in NYC, June 14-18, 1931. Advertising has
illuminated the path of progress.... In building up desire, advertising
has spurred new endeavors. It is their creative work, their dynamic
presentations of products, their ability to teach and educate which have
made each of us desire better things. And in the fulfillment of our
desires, we have reached for and attained higher pinnacles in living
standards and a clearer conception of the values of life itself." | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century." | |
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Marshall McLuhan
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| "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in the
newspaper." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest
way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless." | |
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Sinclair Lewis
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| "Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human
intelligence long enough to get money from it." | |
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Stephen Leacock
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| "Advertising may be described as the science of stopping human
intelligence long enough to get money from it." | |
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Stephen Butler Leacock
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| "Advertising today is not subliminal, but its subtle psychological
effect is as devastating as any secret message flashed at high speeds to
unsuspecting viewers." | |
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Lucy Komisar
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| "Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural
research and communication skills to be able to succeed in the
future." | |
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Marye Tharp
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| "Business today consists in persuading crowds." | |
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Gerald Stanley Lee
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| "Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the
dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does." | |
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Stuart Henderson Britt
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| "Early to bed, early to rise, Work like hell: fertilize." | |
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Emily Whaley
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| "Give them quality. That"s the best kind of advertising." | |
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Milton Snavely Hershey
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| "Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!" | |
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Tom Lehrer
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| "I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a
second." | |
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Steven Wright
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| "Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of
advertising." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially
dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time
for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is
a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how
much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?" | |
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Carl L. Becker
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| "The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of
communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this
ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to
achieve a result ? to make somebody think he needs something that very
possibly he doesn"t need, or to make him think one version of something is
better than another version when the ground for such a belief really
doesn"t exist." | |
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Marvin E. Frankel
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| "The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business
and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve
either." | |
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Glenn Frank
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| "The trouble with America isn"t that the poetry of life has turned to
prose, but that it has changed to advertising copy." | |
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Mortimer B. Zuckerman
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| "The trouble with us in America isn"t that the poetry of life has
turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy." | |
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Louis Kronenberger
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| "Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent
deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding." | |
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Dean Acheson
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| "We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are
self-elected." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "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." | |
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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| "When I"m good I"m very good, but when I"m bad, I"m better." | |
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Mae West
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| "When trade grew slack, and notes fell due, The merchant"s face grew
long and blue; His dreams were troubled through the night With sheriff
bailiffs all in sight. At this his wife unto him said "Rise up at once,
get out of bed, And get your paper, ink, and pen, And advertise to all
good men." He did as his good wife advised, And in the papers advertised.
Crowds came and bought of all he had; His notes were paid, his dreams were
glad; And he will tell you to this day, How well did printer"s ink
repay." | |
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Unknown
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| "You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right
and the budget is big enough." | |
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Joseph E. Levine
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| "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." | |
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George Norman Douglas
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