Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. ~ Sinclair Lewis
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ~ Jerry Della Femina
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse. ~Bruce Barton
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
Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called “Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You.” ~ Dave Barry
However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure. ~ Anon
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. ~ Louis Kronenberger
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper. ~ P.J. O’Rourke
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. ~ Steuart Henderson Britt ******
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death. ~ Leo Burnett
If you are writing about baloney, don’t try and make it Cornish hen, because that’s the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney. ~ Leo Burnett
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. ~ Mark Twain
Advertising is like learning — a little is a dangerous thing. ~ P.T Barnum
Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed . . . but dull? ~ William Bernbach
In our factory, we make lipstick. In our Advertising, we sell hope. ~ Charles Revson
There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. ~ David Ogilvy
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.~ Bill Cosby
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. ~ Fred A. Allen
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. ~Joseph E. Levine
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
~ Jerry Della Famina
The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.~ Thomas Jefferson
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad. ~ Leo Burnett
To advertisers: “Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?” ~ David Ogilvy
It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are a minority of one. ~ E. Paul Torrance
Advertising is legalized lying. ~ H.G. Wells
The list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics. ~ Jerry Kirkpatrick
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~ Stephen B. Leacock
‘Be comfortable with who you are’, reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they’d never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be? ~ Mark Edwards
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. ~ George Santayana
