Category: United Technologies ads

Don’t Quit

This is the seventh in a collection of newspaper ads from United Technologies that appeared in the Wall Street Journal from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Here is the original ad. Is that what you want to do? Quit? Anybody can do that. Takes no talent. takes no guts. It's exactly what your … Continue reading Don’t Quit →

Don’t Promise What You Can’t Deliver

This is the sixth in a collection of newspaper ads from United Technologies that appeared in the Wall Street Journal from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Here is the original ad. "I'll have your parts in two weeks." Four weeks later the parts arrive. "I'll put it in your hand the minute you … Continue reading Don’t Promise What You Can’t Deliver →

Don’t Be Sorry You Said It

This is the fifth in a collection of newspaper ads from United Technologies that appeared in the Wall Street Journal from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Here is the original ad. Sometimes you may blurt out something you really don't mean. But words, once spoken, like bullets once fired, can't be recalled> And they … Continue reading Don’t Be Sorry You Said It →

Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?

This is the fourth in a collection of newspaper ads from United Technologies that appeared in the Wall Street Journal from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Here is the original ad. There's a major crime committed in America at the rate of one every 3 seconds. A murder every 24 minutes. A robbery … Continue reading Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? →

Do You Remember Who Gave You Your First Break?

This is the third in a collection of newspaper ads from United Technologies that appeared in the Wall Street Journal from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Here is the original ad. Someone saw something in you once. That's partly why you are where you are today. It could have been a thoughtful parent, … Continue reading Do You Remember Who Gave You Your First Break? →

Get Out of That Rut

This is the second in a collection of newspaper ads from United Technologies that appeared in the Wall Street Journal from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Each one of the ads was a classic, and as soon as I start reading one of the ads now, it all comes back to me, over … Continue reading Get Out of That Rut →

Stay in Touch – Courtesy of United Technologies

While I was in grad school at Carnegie-Mellon from 1979-1981, United Technologies ran a series of full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal that never mentioned UT or its products, but instead provided words of wisdom and inspiration. The ads stuck with me, and I recently tried to find the ads on the web. I … Continue reading Stay in Touch – Courtesy of United Technologies →