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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. | |
| Anonymous | Second place is the first loser. | |
| David Letterman (1947 - ) | Theres no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. | |
| David Smith | In this business you either sink or swim or you don't. | |
| Edgar A. Shoaff | Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before. | |
| François de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) | Sincerity is an openness of heart that is found in very few people. What we usually see is only an artful disguise people put on to win the confidence of others. | |
| Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) | Advertising is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commision. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. | |
| George Bernard Shaw | Assassination is the extreme form of censorship | |
| George Orwell | Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. | |
| George Santayana (1863 - 1952) | Advertising is the modern substitute ro argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. | |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) | I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - (naturalist) | |
| Jean Giraudoux | The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. | |
| Jessica Mitford (1917 - 1996) | Euphemisms such as "slumber room" abound in the funeral business. | |
| John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) | My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. | |
| Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) | Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. | |
| Jules Renard | I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. | |
| Lou Duva | He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
- (about one of his boxing trainees) | |
| Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. | |
| Otis Beck | Assassination, n. A form of censorship that can be enforced with a bullet or by the stroke of a pen. | |
| Pat Williams | We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play. | |
| Pierre Beaumarchais | If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. | |
| Ralph Nader | Government of the Exxons, by the General Motors, for the Du Ponts. | |
| Raymond Chandler | Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. | |
| Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) | Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. | |
| Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944) | Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. | |
| Stephen Roach | We're not only outsourcing manufacturing to China and services to India, but we've manged to outsource our financing to Asia.
- (economist) | |
| Unknown | The wages of sin are unreported. | |
| Vilhjalmur Stefansson | 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. | |
| Yakov Smirnoff (1951 - ) | The ad in the paper said "Big Sale. Last Week." Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in. - (comedian) | |
| Yogi Berra (1925 - ) | How can you think and hit at the same time? |
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