Advertising Quotes

• "'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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• "The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the ad increases."
  By: Dr. Charles Edwards
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• "I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
  By: Leo Burnett
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• "One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials."
  By: Will Rogers
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• "Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."
  By: Will Rogers
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• "Promise, large promise, is the soul of advertising."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to."
  By: Norman Augustine
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• "Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising."
  By: ^Sandburg Carl
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• "Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement."
  By: ^Sandburg Carl
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• "The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions."
  By: ^Sandburg Carl
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• "I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public."
  By: ^Sandburg Carl
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• "The right name is an advertisement in itself."
  By: ^Sandburg Carl
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• "Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families."
  By: ^Sandburg Carl
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• "The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to make it memorable."
  By: ^Sandburg Carl
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• "No agency is better than its account executives."
  By: ^Sandburg Carl
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• "The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."
  By: ^Sandburg Carl
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