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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. -- Will Rogers
Advertising is legalized lying. -- H. G. Wells
Advertising is the life of trade. -- Calvin Coolidge
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. -- Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. -- Leo Burnett
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. -- Samuel Johnson
Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands. -- Al Ries
Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them. -- Michael Schudson
Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so. -- Maurice Saatchi
Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid. -- Carl Sagan
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. -- Howard Rheingold
Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. -- James Randolph Adams
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. -- Carrie Snow
Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. -- James Adams
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock
Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says. -- Kenneth Roman
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. -- Bill Cosby
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. -- George Santayana
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. -- Raymond Chandler
Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product. -- P. T. Barnum
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. -- Clare Boothe Luce
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- David Honegger
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. -- Joseph E. Levine
In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase. -- Storm Jameson
Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford. -- Andrew Hacker
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. -- Leo Burnett
Advertising is 'an evil service'. -- Aneurin Bevan
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. -- Fred Allen
Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation -- S. I. Hayakawa
Advertising is the art of persuasion. -- William Bernbach
Advertising is the fuel of enterprise. -- George Arthur French
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. -- Winston Churchill
Advertising is the very essence of democracy. -- Anton Chekhov
Advertising can be a very frustrating business. -- Lee Clow
Advertising never sold a bad product twice. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands. -- David Ogilvy
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer
Advertising is much like war, minus the venom -- Claude C. Hopkins
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. -- Calvin Coolidge
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. -- Stephen Leacock
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. -- Christopher Lasch
All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness. -- Suleman Abdullah
Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal. -- Yves Behar
Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy. -- Nick Stringer
Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking. -- Jeff Bezos
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. -- David Ogilvy
In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal. -- William Bernbach
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. -- David Ogilvy
Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product -- Robert Stephens
Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable. -- Robert Stephens
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. -- Stephen Leacock
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. -- Marshall McLuhan
Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people. -- Morris Hite
Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech -- Jef I. Richards
Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy. -- Jeff Goodby
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives. -- Paul Valery
Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it. -- William Bernbach
Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship. -- Lester Wunderman
Advertising is a wonderful lubricant for business, if it's used properly. -- John Cullum
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising. -- George Orwell
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. -- David Ogilvy
Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy -- Ernie J Zelinski
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. -- George Orwell
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. -- Steven Wright
Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. -- P. T. Barnum
Advertising is what happens on TV when people go to bathroom. -- Luke Sullivan
Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically -- Chuka Umunna
Advertising is a ten billion dollar a year misunderstanding with the public -- Chester L. Posey
Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture. -- Anil Ambani
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. -- David Ogilvy
I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising. -- Vivienne Westwood
Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don't you do it? -- Dale Carnegie
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. -- Franz Kafka
Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that. -- Seth
Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good. -- Jean-Louis Gassee
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. -- Phillip Adams
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. -- Mark Twain
I am responsible for creating and overseeing the future products that make up Google Advertising. -- Susan Wojcicki
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is. -- Fairfax M. Cone
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. -- Carrie Snow
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. -- William Bernbach
Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. -- Noam Chomsky
Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true. -- William Wrigley, Jr.
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. -- David Ogilvy
Advertising, if it is any good, should help to confirm what already is, not what should be. -- Scott Bedbury
Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information. -- Dave Winer
Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You." -- Dave Barry
Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out. -- George Lois
To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?" -- David Ogilvy
I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick. -- George Lois
Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times. -- Akio Morita
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. -- Frederik Pohl
Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second. -- Mark Jackson
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. -- William Bernbach
Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials. -- The Edge
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. -- Sinclair Lewis
The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed. -- Maurice Saatchi
Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes. -- Howard Gossage
Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want? -- Paul Arden
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. -- Robert W. Sarnoff
Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business. -- Frank Farrington
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. -- Len Wein
Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't. -- Morris Hite
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. -- Isaac Asimov
Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosing to spend a lot more time online. -- Susan Wojcicki
Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens. -- Robert W. Sarnoff
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. -- Jaron Lanier
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
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. -- Eduardo Galeano
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach. -- David Ogilvy
I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box. -- Evan Davis
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. -- Fred Allen
Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing -- Dean Cavanagh
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. -- David Ogilvy
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. -- Thomas Merton

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