If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
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 what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
Advertising is the life of trade.
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.
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.
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
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.
Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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