#advertising

Advertising is legalized lying. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. ↗

— John Lahr

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Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

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Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#hope #make #money #totally #unless

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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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. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#common #conceptions #considerable #considerable number #economic

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income. ↗

— George Stephen

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What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#buy #consumers #content #decides #form