"As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world."
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"The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority."
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"If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony."
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"If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs."
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"The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize."
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"Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards."
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"In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith."
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"It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage."
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"Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society."
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"An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow."
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"A man may be down, but he is never out."
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"My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them."
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"Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection."
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"If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me."
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"I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy."
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"The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home."
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"Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life."
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