Page 30 - The Big Book of Business Quotations: Over 1,400 of the Smartest Things Ever Said about Making Money - PDFDrive.com

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

—Mark Twain, humorist and writer (from his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,
1889)

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

—Unknown

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the
advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who
believes she has been misled.

—John Wanamaker, department-store magnate (from Whatever Happened to Madison Avenue?,
1991)

Advertising is legalized lying.

—H. G. Wells, writer (from Crown’s Book of Political Quotations, 1982)