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Why, ninety-five percent of the information that reaches you has already been preselected and paid for.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "haruki-murakami", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami" }, "book": { "title": "A Wild Sheep Chase", "slug": "a-wild-sheep-chase", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/a-wild-sheep-chase" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "media", "slug": "media", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/media" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Wild_Sheep_Chase#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:19" }, { "id": "53d69555-5322-4fdf-879d-0f4c5a507b18", "slug": "it-was-an-appeal", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl/the-space-merchants/it-was-an-appeal", "text": "It was an appeal to reason, and they’re always dangerous. You can’t trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frederik Pohl", "slug": "frederik-pohl", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl" }, "book": { "title": "The Space Merchants", "slug": "the-space-merchants", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl/the-space-merchants" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 103, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "reason", "slug": "reason", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederik_Pohl#The_Space_Merchants_(1953)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:30" }, { "id": "14ef45e6-7e78-4516-8dbc-f03ae3c06076", "slug": "increase-of-population", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl/the-space-merchants/increase-of-population", "text": "Increase of population was always good news to us. More people, more sales. Decrease of IQ was always good news to us. Less brains, more sales.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frederik Pohl", "slug": "frederik-pohl", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl" }, "book": { "title": "The Space Merchants", "slug": "the-space-merchants", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl/the-space-merchants" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 111, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "consumerism", "slug": "consumerism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consumerism" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederik_Pohl#The_Space_Merchants_(1953)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:30" }, { "id": "0db728ea-830e-4676-8298-b7a509659729", "slug": "thou-still-unravishd", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl/the-space-merchants/thou-still-unravishd", "text": "‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time—’ That’s the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising. The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frederik Pohl", "slug": "frederik-pohl", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl" }, "book": { "title": "The Space Merchants", "slug": "the-space-merchants", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl/the-space-merchants" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 48, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "poetry", "slug": "poetry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poetry" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederik_Pohl#The_Space_Merchants_(1953)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:30" }, { "id": "362c98e8-2e23-477c-8232-cae61d513840", "slug": "the-people-in-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth/the-people-in-the", "text": "The people in the advertising industry know very well that in order to sell things that people don’t really need, they must convince them that those things will add something to how they see themselves or are seen by others; in other words, add something to their sense of self. They do this, for example, by telling you that you will stand out from the crowd by using this product and so by implication be more fully yourself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Eckhart Tolle", "slug": "eckhart-tolle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle" }, "book": { "title": "A New Earth", "slug": "a-new-earth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "consumerism", "slug": "consumerism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consumerism" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_New_Earth#Chapter_2,_Ego:_the_Current_State_of_Humanity", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:02" }, { "id": "bb512d4a-6e41-4ccd-a34d-8d660bb8ead0", "slug": "publicity-is-usually", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-berger/ways-of-seeing/publicity-is-usually", "text": "Publicity is usually explained and justified as a competitive medium which ultimately benefits the public (the consumer) and the most efficient manufacturers - and thus the national economy. It is closely related to certain ideas about freedom: freedom of choice for the purchaser: freedom of enterprise for the manufacturer. The great hoardings and the publicity neons of the cities of capitalism are the immediate visible sign of \"The Free World.\" For many in Eastern Europe such images in the West sum up what they in the East lack. 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There was no place for irony in marketing: it made people want to look for deeper meaning. There was no place in marketing for that, either.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Max Barry", "slug": "max-barry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry" }, "book": { "title": "Jennifer Government", "slug": "jennifer-government", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/jennifer-government" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 116, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "irony", "slug": "irony", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/irony" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Barry#Jennifer_Government_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:42" }, { "id": "b1684fc4-ce8e-4b75-8b10-74ab9fcc8d6f", "slug": "mktg-case-study-9", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup/mktg-case-study-9", "text": "mktg case study #9: mktg lies OCCASIONALLY, JUST OF COURSE, YOUR COMPANY WILL BE CAUGHT IN A LIE. THIS IS NOT GOOD. IF POSSIBLE, IMMEDIATELY FIRE SOMEONE EXPENDABLE AND PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE. IF NOT, YOU MUST STICK TO THE LIE. PERCEPTION IS REALITY.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Max Barry", "slug": "max-barry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry" }, "book": { "title": "Syrup", "slug": "syrup", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 106, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "lies", "slug": "lies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Barry#Syrup_(1999)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:42" }, { "id": "47e7086c-15d1-4e68-8e42-a8fc27f2c275", "slug": "mktg-case-study-6", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup/mktg-case-study-6", "text": "mktg case study #6: mktg cigarettes FOR A PRODUCT THAT KILLS ITS CUSTOMERS, THIS IS PRETTY EASY. FOR ONE THING, YOU ONLY NEED TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO START BUYING. BUT THE BEST PART IS THAT YOU GET TO DEFEND THE ACT OF SELLING A PRODUCT YOUR CUSTOMERS CAN’T STOP BUYING BY CLAIMING THEY HAVE FREEDOM OF CHOICE. BEFORE EACH MARKETING CAMPAIGN, PRACTICE THE LINE: “IT IS NOT THE POLICY OF OUR COMPANY TO DICTATE THE LIFESTYLE OF OUR CUSTOMERS.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Max Barry", "slug": "max-barry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry" }, "book": { "title": "Syrup", "slug": "syrup", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 70, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "hypocrisy", "slug": "hypocrisy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Barry#Syrup_(1999)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:42" }, { "id": "c3b92605-e352-44b7-9600-6420a9fdc08e", "slug": "to-get-a-good", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup/to-get-a-good", "text": "To get a good job in marketing, you need to market yourself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Max Barry", "slug": "max-barry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry" }, "book": { "title": "Syrup", "slug": "syrup", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 7, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "work", "slug": "work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Barry#Syrup_(1999)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:41" }, { "id": "5c0637ab-9748-435f-bfa9-f5642f6c18d1", "slug": "marketing-or-mktg", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup/marketing-or-mktg", "text": "Marketing (or mktg, which is what you write when you’re taking lecture notes at two hundred words per minute) is the biggest industry in the world, and it’s invisible. It’s the planet’s largest religion, but the billions who worship it don’t know it. It’s vast, insidious and completely corrupt. Marketing is like LA. It’s like a gorgeous, brainless model in LA. A gorgeous, brainless model on cocaine having sex drinking Perrier in LA. That’s the best way I know how to describe it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Max Barry", "slug": "max-barry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry" }, "book": { "title": "Syrup", "slug": "syrup", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 5, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Barry#Syrup_(1999)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:41" }, { "id": "1a3e269e-3592-4eca-bdd6-6a4aaee2f67c", "slug": "the-first-principle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup/the-first-principle", "text": "The first principle of marketing (okay, it’s not the first, but it doesn’t sound nearly as cool to say it’s the third) is this: Perception is reality. You see, a long time ago, some academic came up with the idea that reality doesn’t actually exist. Or at least, if it does, no one can agree what it is. Because of perception. Perception is the filter through which we view the world, and most of the time it’s a handy thing to have: it generalizes the world so we can deduce that a man who wears an Armani suit is rich, or that a man who wears an Armani suit and keeps saying “Isn’t this some Armani suit” is a rich asshole. But perception is a faulty mechanism. Perception is unreliable and easily distracted, subject to a thousand miscues and misinformation…like marketing. If anyone found a way to actually distinguish perception from reality, the entire marketing industry would crumble into the sea overnight.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Max Barry", "slug": "max-barry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry" }, "book": { "title": "Syrup", "slug": "syrup", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 6, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "reality", "slug": "reality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Barry#Syrup_(1999)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:41" }, { "id": "961a51ca-6614-4709-a518-1533d48338a9", "slug": "just-as-he-was", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis/babbitt/just-as-he-was", "text": "Just as he was an Elk, a Booster, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, just as the priests of the Presbyterian Church determined his every religious belief and the senators who controlled the Republican Party decided in little smoky rooms in Washington what he should think about disarmament, tariff, and Germany, so did the large national advertisers fix the surface of his life, fix what he believed to be his individuality. These standard advertised wares—toothpastes, socks, tires, cameras, instantaneous hot-water heaters—were his symbols and proofs of excellence; at first sight the signs, then the substitutes, for joy and passion and wisdom. ~ Ch. 7", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sinclair Lewis", "slug": "sinclair-lewis", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis" }, "book": { "title": "Babbitt", "slug": "babbitt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis/babbitt" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "conformity", "slug": "conformity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conformity" }, { "name": "consumerism", "slug": "consumerism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consumerism" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis#Babbitt_(1922)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:00" }, { "id": "bd183f2b-0d93-4ff4-b7f5-2dc96ff45f1c", "slug": "we-will-never", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-baudrillard/the-perfect-crime/we-will-never", "text": "We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Baudrillard", "slug": "jean-baudrillard", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-baudrillard" }, "book": { "title": "The Perfect Crime", "slug": "the-perfect-crime", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-baudrillard/the-perfect-crime" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "media", "slug": "media", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/media" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard#The_Perfect_Crime_(1993)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:58" }, { "id": "c42cc673-ec37-4f04-8f7e-58b94e3ed425", "slug": "once-we-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marshall-mcluhan/understanding-media/once-we-have", "text": "Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly. 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Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kurt Vonnegut", "slug": "kurt-vonnegut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut" }, "book": { "title": "Player Piano", "slug": "player-piano", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 93, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "manipulation", "slug": "manipulation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation" }, { "name": "business", "slug": "business", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/business" }, { "name": "advertising", "slug": "advertising", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Player_Piano_(1952)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:34" }, { "id": "7d5aa39d-9ae3-42fa-afd7-074a1eed0a0d", "slug": "when-ancient-greeks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/lullaby/when-ancient-greeks", "text": "When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. 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