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When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

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.

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

If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

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.

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

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.

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.