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If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.
Bruce Barton
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Bruce Barton
Age: 80 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1967
Died: January 1
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If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves the critic stands still, and is passed by.
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I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
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Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.
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Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
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Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.
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The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.
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If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
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Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
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As a profession advertising is young as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
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It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
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Conceit is God's gift to little men.
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Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.
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If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
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Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
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