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Sad to say, negative advertising really works.

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

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 degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

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