"Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that."
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"Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest."
"It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money."
"In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling."
""Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless."
"Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don't you do it?"
"The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme."
"Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation."
"It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising."
"Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!"
"Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington."
"I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating"
"If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising."
"I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy."
"The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms."
"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
"Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste."
"The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising."
"The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy."
"Stop advertising and start innovating."