A Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American - Novelist
September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940

A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

Dalai Lama

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

David Ogilvy

A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

David Ogilvy

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

Claude C. Hopkins

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

Frank Farrington

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Philip Pullman

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

Nick Tosches

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Steve Albini

A lot of advertising has gotten worse. I think it's kind of lost its nerve, to be honest with you. I feel like the advertising of the '60s, they were nervier. You know why? Because there was less at stake.

Jerry Seinfeld

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.

Maurice Saatchi

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

Noah Baumbach

I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero.

Farah Khan

Life minus love equals zero.

Rick Warren

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is.

Peace Pilgrim

I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the 'Mad Men' television series without moving a desk.

Jerry Della Femina

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