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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

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

A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper.

Thomas Dooley

Advertising

Kids

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

John C. Crosby

Advertising

First