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"I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive."
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"Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them."
Advertising

"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."
Art

"I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive."
Life

"Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest."
Advertising

"Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image."
Thought

"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 pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
Excellence

"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."
Advertising

"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."
Advertising

"You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place."
People
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."
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"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."
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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"
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"Things past redress are now with me past care."
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"Hate is hostility."
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