A Quote by John Wanamaker

I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.

John Wanamaker

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Advertising Dollars Half Just Know Wasted Which

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John Wanamaker
American - Businessman
July 11, 1838 - December 12, 1922

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Jerry Della Femina

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

John Wanamaker

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

John Wanamaker

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

John Wanamaker

Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million.

Win Butler

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Yoko Ono

Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

Ambrose Bierce

Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.

Marc Bulger

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

Robert Breault

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

Melody Carlson

Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

Chaz Brenchley

A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

William Butler Yeats

You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day.

Bill Engvall

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

Arthur Kornberg

It's so deeply disturbing to me that half of the eligible voters don't vote in this country. We talk about how divided the country is. The truth is, we don't even know. We just know what the half that voted thought.