#advertising

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success. ↗

— George Presbury Rowell

#history #humor #medicine #business

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#marketing #media-of-the-united-states #politician #politics-of-the-united-states #design

Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#democracies #free-speech #money #opinion #organizations

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. ↗

— Fred Allen

#before #existed #had #men #space

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. ↗

— Will Rogers

#advertising #amount #improving #money #product

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising. ↗

— Benjamin Henry Day

#affiliation #except #i #partisan #promised

We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#campaign #exposure #only #portion #president

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#caused #conquer #constant #constant flow #country

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood. ↗

— Robin Day

#balls #changing #evil #get #i

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist. ↗

— Daniel Gardner

#bias #controversy #fear #media #science