#advertising

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

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

#common #hard #impress #most #people

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

#advertising #beauty #because #designers #forget

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#hated #i #know #lot #pretty

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague. ↗

— John C. Crosby

#avoid #concrete #cultivate #delightfully #first

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. ↗

— William Feather

#based #behind #every #every man #man

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#changed #edge #experience #explains #how

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#advertising #because #doing #expression #google

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#business #economy #going #i #information