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"Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable."
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"Advertising is legalized lying."
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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
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"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
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"The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself."
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"Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide."
History
"We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'"
Hell
"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."
Creativity
"I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think."
Creativity
"The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself."
Advertising
"I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death."
Death
"Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink."
Business
"I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
Genius
"The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders."
Business
"What helps people, helps business."
Business
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