Howard Gossage famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you have a lemon; make lemonade.
-- Howard Gossage

#Fortune Cookie #Lemonade #Make Lemonade
The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.
-- Howard Gossage

#Wise #Witty #Real
The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.
-- Howard Gossage

#Hunting #Space #May
Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.
-- Howard Gossage

#Powerful #Tools #Purpose
I don't know how to speak to everybody, only to somebody.
-- Howard Gossage

#Speak
I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: "You have to fight fire with fire" so that I could reply, "That's funny-I always use water."
-- Howard Gossage

#Fighting #Fire #Years
I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.
-- Howard Gossage

#Men #Long #Advertising

For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?
If you have a lemon; make lemonade.
Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
What you earn depends on what you learn.
To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.
I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.
In life they're not going to serve you lemons, they're going to serve you lemonade; and I don't really like lemonade because I've got a really bad acid reflux.
When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.
It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

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