The Marketing Bureau

Advertising is legalized lying.

H. G. Wells

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

Mark Twain

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Samuel Butler

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

John F. Kennedy

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

George Orwell

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Marshall Mcluhan

The real news is bad news.

Marshall Mcluhan

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Graham Greene

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

I keep reading between the lies.

Goodman Ace

Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

Peter F. Drucker

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

William Hazlitt

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Karl Kraus

All I know is just what I read in the papers.

Will Rogers

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.

Will Rogers

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

Theodore Roosevelt

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Unknown Source

However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure.

Unknown Source

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

Arthur Miller

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Mark Twain

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Henry David Thoreau

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

Laurence J. Peter

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana