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

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

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

"Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything."

"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario."

"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."

"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."

"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 can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen."


"A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad."
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