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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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"Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread."
"A good ad which is not run never produces sales."
"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising."
"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."
"Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before."
"Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising."
"If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising."
"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."
"We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake."
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"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion."
"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."
"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
"Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything."
"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."
"I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is."
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