Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
quote by Michael Schudson
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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.
quote by David Ogilvy
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I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
quote by Renny Harlin
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There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
quote by David Ogilvy
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Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.
quote by Jeffrey Sachs
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
quote by Nat King Cole
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If government, or those in positions of power and authority, can silence criticism by the argument that such criticism might be misunderstood somewhere, there is an end to all criticism, and perhaps an end to our kind of political system. For men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
quote by Henry Steele Commager
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
quote by Gijs de Vries
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold MacMillan in Wall Street Journal (13 August 1963)
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Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.
quote by Mario Monti
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I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.
quote by Paul Cellucci
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey in Eminent Victorians (1918)
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There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.
Carl Sagan in Contact
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I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.
quote by Patty Hearst
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I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.
quote by Jef I. Richards
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Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
quote by Bob Filner
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If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
quote by Jef I. Richards
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While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.
quote by Jef I. Richards
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Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
quote by David Riesman
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There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
quote by Jerry Della Femina
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The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.
quote by Daniel Starch
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