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"Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales."
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"I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience."

"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."

"Just advertising departments with legs and high heels."

"There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone."

"I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range."

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."

"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."

"American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets."
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"American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets."

"The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment."

"The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values."

"Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public."

"It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should."

"Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies."

"If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly."
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