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"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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"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."

"There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past."

"We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake."

"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."

"Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it."

"If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic."

"Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn."

"This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records."

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

"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
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"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk."

"A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."

"Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."

"Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you."
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