Quotes by James Adams

• Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.
• The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.
• Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
• If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.
• Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
• Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
• The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
• Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
• There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.