Bruce Fairchild Barton was an American author, advertising executive, and politician.
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“When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.”
Bruce Barton
“In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.”
“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.”
“What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.”
“When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.”
“The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.”
“It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.”
“Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.”
“Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.”
“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.”