Top 25 Quotes by Bruce Barton of 57 - Page 3

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,

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.

Bruce Barton

Men, Names, People

"The Man Nobody Knows". Book by Bruce Fairchild Barton. Chapter 5: "His Advertisements", 1925.

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

Bruce Barton

Hard Work, Home, People

"Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America". Book by T. J. Jackson Lears, 1994.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Bruce Barton

Sex, Men, Age

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

Bruce Barton

Successful, Sides, Advertising

"The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators". Book by Stephen R. Fox, 1984.

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.

Bruce Barton

Simple, Voice, People

Bruce Barton (2000). “The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus”, Ivan R Dee

When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

Bruce Barton

Spring, Believe, Moving

Masonic News, Volume 8, p. 181, 1927.