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"Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything."
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"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."
"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
"The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague."
"If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising."
"The Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising."
"The future of advertising is the Internet."
"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."
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"The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account."
"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga."
"It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea."
"What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form."
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
"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."
"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
"I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination."
"Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera."
"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."
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