The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Dean Gooderham Acheson
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
Fran Lebowitz
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
John Lahr
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted the trouble is I don't know which half.
John Wanamaker
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain
Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.
P Barnum
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
Paul Sweezy
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
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