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"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."

"The future of advertising is the Internet."

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."

"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."

"There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre."

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."

"The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising."
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"It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence."

"The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine."
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