Advertising Quotes

Most popular advertising quotes

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. - George Norman Douglas quote.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
When images and information have as their sole objective the intent of provoking consumption or manipulating people...we find ourselves in front of an assault, an act of violence, a kidnapping. - Pope Francis quote.
When images and information have as their sole objective the intent of provoking consumption or manipulating people...we find ourselves in front of an assault, an act of violence, a kidnapping.
We don't stand a chance of advertising with features and benefits and with RAMs and with charts and comparisons. The only chance we have of communicating is with a feeling. - Steve Jobs quote.
We don't stand a chance of advertising with features and benefits and with RAMs and with charts and comparisons. The only chance we have of communicating is with a feeling.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. - Chuck Palahniuk quote.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
A (Television) viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. - Nicholas Johnson quote.
A (Television) viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.

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An acquaintance who was seated next to R.J. Wrigley on a flight to Chicago asked the multimillionaire why he continued to advertise his chewing gum when it was far and away the most successful product in its field. Wrigley replied, "For the same reason that the pilot keeps this plane's engine running even though we are already in the air."
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock quote.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. - Sinclair Lewis quote.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives. - Paul Valéry quote.
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. - George Santayana quote.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. - John Kenneth Galbraith quote.
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their products that they do on advertising and then they wouldn't have to advertise. - Will Rogers quote.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their products that they do on advertising and then they wouldn't have to advertise.
Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it. - Franklin P. Jones quote.
Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. - Nicholas Johnson quote.
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

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Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
A vice-president in an advertising agency is a "molehill man." A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 a.m. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch. - Fred Allen quote.
A vice-president in an advertising agency is a "molehill man." A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 a.m. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. - Mark Twain quote.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuha quote.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to. - Bruce Barton quote.
In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.
You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising. - John Nance Garner quote.
You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. - Fred Allen quote.
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
The longest word in the English language is the one that follows the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor."

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Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic. Promise, large Promise, is the soul of an Advertisement. - Samuel Johnson quote.
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic. Promise, large Promise, is the soul of an Advertisement.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
We've got to know what we've got a choice of. This is the function of advertising.
There is no such thing as a bad client. But there is such a thing as bad advertising.
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of footbinding. - Dean Acheson quote.
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of footbinding.
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Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion.  And persuasion is an art.

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Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark.  You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
Advertising is the ability to...put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper, and ink. - Leo Burnett quote.
Advertising is the ability to...put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper, and ink.
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing.  There is more than one way to conquer a country. - Raymond Chandler quote.
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing.  There is more than one way to conquer a country.
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. - Winston Churchill quote.
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.
An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.
A good ad should be like a good sermon: it must not only comfort the afflicted—it must afflict the comfortable.
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 quote.
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.
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.  I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. - Zelda Fitzgerald quote.
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.  I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Advertising—a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. - Northrop Frye quote.
Advertising—a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Copywriters may struggle to distill their messages of enthusiasm in bright prose and snappy slogans, but the one word favored by advertisers over the years, is still the old word new.
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities.  I mean the advertisement. - Aldous Huxley quote.
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities.  I mean the advertisement.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. - Samuel Johnson quote.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned into advertising copy. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned into advertising copy.

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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuha quote.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. - David Ogilvy quote.
Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket. - George Orwell quote.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.
In our factory we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
The art of advertisement—untruthfulness combined with repetition. - Freya Stark quote.
The art of advertisement—untruthfulness combined with repetition.
Advertising is legalized lying. - H. G. Wells quote.
Advertising is legalized lying.
Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams. - E. B. White quote.
Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams.
Advertising tries to be a pyromaniac, igniting conflagrations of desires for instant gratification. - George Will quote.
Advertising tries to be a pyromaniac, igniting conflagrations of desires for instant gratification.
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the AID degree to get by— Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. - Isaac Asimov quote.
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the AID degree to get by— Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

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If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising. - David Ogilvy quote.
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

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