82 Quotes by Bruce Barton

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

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.

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.

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.