Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises – but only performance is reality. – Harold S. Geneen

Im in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone