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"Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money."
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"The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma."

"I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers."

"There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time."

"The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?"

"Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers."

"Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it."

"Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?"

"In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

"See money " currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully."

"Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash."

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
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