deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.