At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.
– Vance Packard
In the field of marketing... the trend toward selling has reached something of a nadir with the unveiling... of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.
– Vance Packard
Rock 'n' roll might best be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
– Vance Packard
You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
– Vance Packard
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.