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Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash. -- Aubrey Beardsley
Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement. -- James Cash Penney
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. -- Samuel Johnson
I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system. -- David Brinkley
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast. -- Brian Koslow
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. -- George Orwell
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. -- Franz Kafka
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. -- David Ogilvy
I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement. -- Bridget Hall
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. -- David Ogilvy
There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. -- David Ogilvy
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. -- J. B. Priestley
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them. -- David Ogilvy
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? -- William S. Burroughs
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented. -- Marina Abramovic
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. -- David Ogilvy
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. -- Pierre Charron
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. -- P. T. Barnum
I'm a walking advertisement for PBS and for the Discovery Channel. All of my DVR settings are pretty much set to record anything that's on the Discovery Channel. I'm a big fan of 'MythBusters' and 'Deadliest Catch,' and I'm constantly watching 'Moyers & Company' and the 'NewsHour' and 'Antiques Roadshow.' -- Thomas Sadoski
Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened. -- Boman Irani
First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c. -- Michael Moore
Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story. -- Blake Mycoskie
All media depend on advertisement to survive. -- Noam Chomsky
Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty. -- W. Graham Scroggie
I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself. -- David Byrne
A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity. -- Geoffrey B. Wilson
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. -- J. B. Priestley
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson
Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping. -- Iris Apfel
I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement. -- David Ogilvy
The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God. -- Brian D. McLaren
A good headline can make an advertisement good even if the picture is poor. -- John Caples
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. -- John Ruskin
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms. -- Aldous Huxley
Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete -- Claude C. Hopkins
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues. -- Myrtle Reed
Every advertisement is part of the long term investment in the personality of the brand. -- David Ogilvy
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. -- Irvin S. Cobb
It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. -- Kevin Smith
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued. -- Irvin S. Cobb
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. -- Holbrook Jackson
Europe is not managing its capitalism very well, it is not a good advertisement of capitalism -- Jack Goldstone
A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading. -- Fairfax M. Cone
The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination. -- Christopher Isherwood
An advertisement will be a good one - that is if the headline is really a "stopper." -- John Caples
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it. -- Freya Stark
Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image. -- David Ogilvy
A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are. -- Isabella Rossellini
We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards. -- Robin Day
Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one. -- David Ogilvy
I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement. -- Amandla Stenberg
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science. -- David Perlmutter
Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself. -- Rose McGowan
Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock. -- David Ogilvy
Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement. -- Michael Dirda
I think if you can create a meaningful thing that is also an advertisement that's a pretty cool option for brands. -- Doug Walters
A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization. -- James Cash Penney
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself. -- Walter Jon Williams
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement. -- Dave Hickey
Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world? -- Donald Barthelme
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself. -- Walter Jon Williams
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement? -- William John Locke
It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen at all. -- Gerard J Tellis
What is a good advertisement? An advertisement which pleases you because of its style, or an advertisement which sells the most? They are seldom the same. -- David Ogilvy
All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy. -- Joseph Sugarman
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch -- Joseph Priestley
It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look, and read. -- David Ogilvy
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. -- Wyndham Lewis
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases. -- Charles Edwards
This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. -- Thorstein Veblen
Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency. -- David Ogilvy
It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money. -- G.K. Chesterton
I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
Get the big point of your advertisement into your headline. Use your headline as a hook to reach out and catch the special group of people you are trying to interest. -- John Caples
It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money. -- G.K. Chesterton
That paper--it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in. -- Markus Zusak
The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads. -- Michael D. Barnes
I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising. -- Jeff Koons
The Holy Grail of advertising has always been advertisement that people want to watch, which occasionally happens. You know, the Super Bowl, people sit there and watch the advertisements. Some print advertising is very beautiful. -- Tim Wu

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