Quotes about Advertising
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"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."
-Bill Cosby
-Bill Cosby
"Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed."
-Cornelia Otis Skinner
-Cornelia Otis Skinner
"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half."
-John Wanamaker
-John Wanamaker
"Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth."
-James Randolph Adams
-James Randolph Adams
"Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?"
-William Bernbach
-William Bernbach
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
-Raymond Chandler
-Raymond Chandler
"When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly."
-John O'toole
-John O'toole
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid)."
-Robert A. Heinlein
-Robert A. Heinlein
"The difference between email being identified as an art or a science is truly an individual decision based on the impact that the elements of the design mean when they are processed by the viewer."
-Jeanniey Mullen
-Jeanniey Mullen
"Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward."
-Robert W. Sarnoff
-Robert W. Sarnoff
"Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals."
-Sir John Vanbrugh
-Sir John Vanbrugh
"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."
-Jerry Della Femina
-Jerry Della Femina
"The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value."
-Morris Hite
-Morris Hite
"In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner."
-Richard John Neuhaus
-Richard John Neuhaus
"Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?"
-David Riesman
-David Riesman
"I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place."
-Bill Barnes
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