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Advertising Quotes



"A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper."



"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."


"Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry."


"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."



"Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions."



"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."


"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."



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


"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."


"The future of advertising is the Internet."


"If I were starting life over again I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising."


"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."


"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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