Advertising(Related Subjects: Journalism, Television)

• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. - Bill Cosby (1937 - )
• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. - George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
• Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. -John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
• Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. - Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
• Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. - Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
• Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
• I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
• Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Unknown What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. - Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964