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Have you noticed the ever-increasing arm of advertising in our lives? According to a New York Times article, supermarket eggs have begun to be stamped by CBS television shows, turnstiles in subways ar...

You might have heard the story about the dog food company. They launched a new line of dog food, stocking it on shelves nationwide, but it didn’t sell well at all. Sales plummeted and the leadership d...

Why a story? We all think of our lives as stories, each with a main character (us) theme, and plot (interesteing so far, but as yet unfinished). We also love to hear stories about others and even abou...

On his hundredth birthday, a reporter asked the man the inevitable question: “What do you attribute your long life to?” The old man replied, “I haven’t decided yet. I’m still negotiating with a supple...

Advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a community than the editorial columns are.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.”

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising is literally an attempt to monetize our restlessness.

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commo...

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

...You are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don’t flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it—they supplant it.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

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.

When an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer. And so, the balance of business expenditures shifts from product research to market research...

The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.