Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

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A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Roy H. Williams

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

Roy H. Williams

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

Roy H. Williams

If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.

Roy H. Williams

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

Roy H. Williams

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

Roy H. Williams

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

Roy H. Williams

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

Roy H. Williams

The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.

Roy H. Williams

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

Roy H. Williams

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

Roy H. Williams

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

Roy H. Williams

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

Roy H. Williams

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

Roy H. Williams

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

Roy H. Williams

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

Roy H. Williams

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

Roy H. Williams

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

Roy H. Williams

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

Roy H. Williams

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Roy H. Williams

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

Roy H. Williams

The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

Roy H. Williams

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

Roy H. Williams

One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

Roy H. Williams

What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.

Roy H. Williams

Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.

Roy H. Williams

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

Roy H. Williams

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Roy H. Williams

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Roy H. Williams

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

Roy H. Williams

The first step in exceeding your customers expectations is to know those expectations.

Roy H. Williams

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

Roy H. Williams

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

Roy H. Williams

The value of an item in the mind of a consumer is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

Roy H. Williams

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

Roy H. Williams

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

Fairfax Cone

Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion.

Lisa Miller

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

Daniel Starch

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

Thornton Wilder

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.

Morris Hite

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Pope John Paul II

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Steven Wright

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Leo Burnett

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

Jef I. Richards

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

Edgar A. Shoaff