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"Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them."
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"A good ad which is not run never produces sales."
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Personal Development

"More traffic means more advertising dollars."
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Personal Development

"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
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"The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace."
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"American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets."
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"The future of advertising is the Internet."
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"Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice."
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"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."
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"Advertising is the very essence of democracy."
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"You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X."
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"Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of."
Will

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

"Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales."
Advertising

"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."
Success

"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."
People

"Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them."
Advertising

"If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art."
Art

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

"Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term."
Politics

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