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- One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Ben Johnson
- They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
- Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.
- Author Unknown
- Business today consists in persuading crowds.
- Gerald Stanley Lee
- Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result -- to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.
- Marvin E. Frankel
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