Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
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 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.
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.
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?'
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 a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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