Advertising Quotes

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. (Marshall McLuhan)
Advertising is legalized lying. View quote
H. G. Wells
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. View quote
George Orwell
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. View quote
George Santayana
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. View quote
Pauline Kael
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. View quote
Stephen Leacock
If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world. (Richard Donner)
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. View quote
Bill Cosby
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget. View quote
Daniel Suarez
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. View quote
David Ogilvy
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. View quote
David Ogilvy
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. View quote
William Bernbach
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. View quote
Leo Burnett
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. View quote
Leo Burnett
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. View quote
Leo Burnett
A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'. (Leo Burnett)
Keep advertising and advertising will keep you. View quote
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. View quote
Louis Kronenberger
Censorship is advertising paid by the government. View quote
Federico Fellini
Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life. View quote
Augusten Burroughs