Publicity

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What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963)
Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.

Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963)
The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in the newspaper.
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