Bruce Barton Quotes (21 quotations)
1. Advertising did not invent the products or services which called forth jobs, nor inspire the pioneering courage that built factories and machinery to produce them. What advertising did was to stimulate ambition and desire - the craving to process, which is the strongest incentive to produce. To satisfy this craving the factory was impelled to turn itself into a growing factory; and then, by the pressure of mass demand, into many factories. Mass production made possible mass economies, reflected in declining prices, until the product that began as the luxury of the rich became the possession of every family that was willing to work. - Bruce Barton
2. Advertising is of the very essence of democracy. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which manufacturer and which product shall be the leader today, and which shall lead tomorrow. - Bruce Barton
3. 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. - Bruce Barton
4. Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. - Bruce Barton
5. 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. - Bruce Barton
6. Conceit is God's gift to little men. - Bruce Barton
7. If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton
8. If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton
9. If you give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton
10. If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature. - Bruce Barton
11. It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. - Bruce Barton
12. It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. - Bruce Barton
13. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton
14. Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. - Bruce Barton
15. The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence one, so does the church. And if it encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times they have to. - Bruce Barton
16. The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. - Bruce Barton
17. 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. - Bruce Barton
18. 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. - Bruce Barton
19. 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. - Bruce Barton
20. When you are through changing, you are through. - Bruce Barton
21. When you're through changing, you're through. - Bruce Barton
2. Advertising is of the very essence of democracy. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which manufacturer and which product shall be the leader today, and which shall lead tomorrow. - Bruce Barton
3. 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. - Bruce Barton
4. Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. - Bruce Barton
5. 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. - Bruce Barton
6. Conceit is God's gift to little men. - Bruce Barton
7. If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton
8. If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton
9. If you give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton
10. If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature. - Bruce Barton
11. It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. - Bruce Barton
12. It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. - Bruce Barton
13. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton
14. Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. - Bruce Barton
15. The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence one, so does the church. And if it encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times they have to. - Bruce Barton
16. The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. - Bruce Barton
17. 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. - Bruce Barton
18. 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. - Bruce Barton
19. 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. - Bruce Barton
20. When you are through changing, you are through. - Bruce Barton
21. When you're through changing, you're through. - Bruce Barton
