Advertising Quotes

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Yes, I sell people things they don't need. I can't, however, sell them something they don't want. Even with advertising. Even if I were of a mind to.

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

I walked out with 14 advertising projects.

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.