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The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

Advertising is the life of trade.

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

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.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.