Advertising Quotes

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
Michael Schudson

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Clare Boothe Luce


The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity
~ George Carlin


The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~Bill Cosby


Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. ~J.B. Priestley

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
Carrie P. Snow

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
William Bernbach


So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. ~Jason Love


Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. ~Edgar A. Shoaff

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
~ Will Rogers

Business Quotes

xIn business, I’ve discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That’s my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.
Donald Trump

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please. ~Will Rogers


To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~Thomas Watson, Sr.


I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. ~Alan Greenspan


As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
Edgar R. Fiedler

Astrology Quotes

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. ~Benjamin Stillingfleet


Our jovial star reigned at his birth. ~William Shakespeare


A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an intellectual - find out how he feels about astrology. ~Robert A. Heinlein

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

William Shakespeare

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

Noel Coward

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

Louis Pasteur

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
Louis Pasteur

Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.
Benjamin Franklin

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.
Donald Regan


There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.Varaha Mihira


Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
John Jewel

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Noel Coward

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.
Emm Gryner

Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.

John Pierpont Morgan

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish... ~Robert G. Ingersoll


The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. ~Louis Pasteur

Belief Quotes

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken

When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. ~Laurens van der Post


Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
Stuart Chase

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.
Dr. Robert Anthony quotes

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
Sigmund Freud

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud


If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them
Harvey MacKay