Marketing

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• "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
  • Source: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), in a letter, 1819

• "An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
  • Source: Fred Allen (1894-1957), Treadmill to Oblivion, 1954

• "Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising."
  • Source: John Lahr (1941-), The Guardian, August 1989

• "You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements."
  • Source: Norman Douglas (1868-1952), South Wind, 1917

• "Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
  • Source: Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Culture Is Our Business, 1970

Attributed

• "From any cross-section of ads, the general advertiser's attitude would seem to be: if you are lousy, smelly, idle, underprivileged, and oversexed status-seeking neurotic moron, give me your money."
  • Kenneth Bromfield

• "Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."
  • Will Rogers

• "All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application."
  • Adolf Hitler

• "I know that half my advertising works, I just don't know which half."
  • John Wanamaker, department store mogul