I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Quote by Daniel J Boorstin

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed.

Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We...

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We...

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull...

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull...

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to...

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to...

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of...

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of...

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even...

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even...

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by...

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by...

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even...

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even...

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing...

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing...

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion,...

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion,...

Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy...

Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy...