#advertising

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half. ↗

— John Wanamaker

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I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#find #half #i #i can #know

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. ↗

— Kit Williams

#ancient #contemporary #contemporary society #engine #i

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man. ↗

— Howard Luck Gossage

#become #business #day #for the day #grown

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#avenue #brand #done #harlem #know

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'. ↗

— Morris Hite

#advertising #believe #buy #clever #commercial

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't. ↗

— Morris Hite

#bother #could #face-to-face #his #mass

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people. ↗

— Morris Hite

#goods #merchandising #moves #people #toward

Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time. ↗

— Morris Hite

#american #any #anybody #challenge #done

There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den. ↗

— Morris Hite

#den #kitchen #local #man #national