Advertising Quotes, Sayings about Advertisement
+34Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
- Edgar A. Shoaff
+3Advertising doesn’t create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
- William Bernbach
+1Advertising is legalized lying.
- H. G. Wells
+1Managing creatives is like hearding cats.
- John Gillard
+1Advertising is the ‘wonder’ in Wonder Bread.
- Jef I. Richards
+1Advertising is only another form of statistics.
- Hartman Jule
+1Advertising is a bit like playing make believe.
- Hartman Jule
+1A good ad which is not run never produces sales.
- Leo Burnett
+1The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
- Jerry Fairfax Cone
+1It’s never the next brief, it’s always this brief.
- Paul Arden
+1Advertising a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
- Northrop Frye
+1Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
- David Ogilvy
+1Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
- Samuel Johnson
+1You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
- Norman Douglas
+1This is a global business. You’ve got to be good everywhere.
- Roger Haupt
+1The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
- Leonard Bernstein
+1So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free.
- Jason Love
+1A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.
- James Collins
+1Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
- J.B. Priestley
+1Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
- Marshall McLuhan
+1Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.
- Michael Schudson
+1In general, my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced on TV.
- Erma Bombeck
+1Advertising is speech. It’s regulated because it’s often effective speech.
- Jef I. Richards
+1If people aren’t going to talk about your product, then it’s not good enough.
- Jeffrey Kalmikoff
+1A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
- Nicholas Johnson
+1Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain
+1Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.
- Anil Ambani
+1Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
- Carrie P. Snow
+1Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.
- John Wanamaker
+1It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
- Nicholas Johnson
+1Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
- William Bernbach
+1Don’t tell my mother I work in an advertising agency – she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.
- Jacques Seguela
+1The history of media is the market share of advertising dollars has followed.. albeit with a lag.
- James Packer
+1Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler
+1Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- George Santayana
+1The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
- Bill Cosby
+1Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
- Clare Boothe Luce
+1Advertising is on its deathbed and it will not survive long, having contracted a fatal case of new technology.
- Roland T. Rust
+1I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good add.
- Leo Burnett
