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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

— Sinclair Lewis

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Leo Burnett

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

— Will Rogers

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.

— Alain de Botton

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

— William Bernbach

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

— Tom Ford

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

— Jaron Lanier

Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.

— Justin Cartwright

Advertising is the life of trade.

— Calvin Coolidge

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.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

✗Opposing Perspectives

Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.

— Daniel Starch