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Fred Allen

"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference."

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"I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising."

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"I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes."

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"You push the button, we do the rest."

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

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"Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled."

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"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."

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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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"I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for."

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"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."

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"The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible."

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