advertising
n. The science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Cynical Quotations
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
— Bill Cosby
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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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
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
— Raymond Chandler
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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
— Charles Revlon
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