Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other.... The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half century would have been impossible without the spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

As quoted in: David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man (1978), p. 132.