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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler, US detective novelist & screenwriter (1888 - 1959)

CP Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist & humorist (1869 - 1944)

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
- Bill Cosby, US comedian & television actor (1937 - )

CP Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
- Sinclair Lewis, US novelist (1885 - 1951)

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
- Norman Douglas

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker, US department store merchant (1838 - 1922)

I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place.
- Bill Barnes

CP If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough.
- Jeffrey Kalmikoff