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"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."
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"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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"I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising."
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"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."
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"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."
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"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."
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"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."
People
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
Excellence
"Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom."
Society
"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."
Life
"Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write."
People
"I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years."
Nation
"The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace."
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"The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything."
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"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."
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"Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible."
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