{"topic":"advertising","quotes":[{"quote":"I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place.","author":"Bill Barnes"},{"quote":"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.","author":"Bill Cosby"},{"quote":"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.","author":"George Santayana"},{"quote":"If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough.","author":"Jeffrey Kalmikoff"},{"quote":"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.","author":"John Wanamaker"},{"quote":"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.","author":"Mark Twain"},{"quote":"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.","author":"Norman Douglas"},{"quote":"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.","author":"Raymond Chandler"},{"quote":"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.","author":"Sinclair Lewis"},{"quote":"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.","author":"Stephen Leacock"},{"quote":"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.","author":"Thomas Jefferson"},{"quote":"I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.","author":"Thomas Jefferson"},{"quote":"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.","author":"Vilhjalmur Stefansson"}]}