Advertising Quotes

• "Old-Timers Games, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful."
  By: Casey Stengel
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• "There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip."
  By: Bob Hope (I owe Russia $1200)
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• "As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, Don’t worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it’s obsolete."
  By: Bob Hope (I owe Russia $1200)
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• "What I normally do to ease these tensions (of delayed flights) is travel with a small goat. If things get rough I sacrifice it as an offering to St. Christopher, and this usually does the trick (although you should be warned that the process can make a bit of a mess, and they get a bit annoyed if you do it in the executive lounges in the airports."
  By: Barry Gibbons (If you really want to make God Laugh...)
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• "Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed . . . but dull?"
  By: William Bernbach
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• "Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does."
  By: Steuart Henderson Britt
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• "Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper."
  By: P.J. O'Rourke (The Bachelor Home Companion)
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• "'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?"
  By: Mark Edwards
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• "We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'"
  By: Leo Burnett
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• "I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad."
  By: Leo Burnett
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• "I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death."
  By: Leo Burnett
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• "If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney."
  By: Leo Burnett
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• "The list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics."
  By: Jerry Kirkpatrick (A Philosophic Defense of Advertising)
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• "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on."
  By: Jerry Della Femina
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• "Advertising is legalized lying."
  By: H.G. Wells
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• "It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are a minority of one."
  By: E. Paul Torrance
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