Advertising Quotes

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Will Rogers

Money, Art, Spend

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

Money, Same, Spend

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.
Will Rogers

Money, Same, Improving

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
Steven Wright

Second, Executive, Subliminal

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Pope John Paul II

Work, Evil, Hard

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama

Money, Truth, Small

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell

Inside, Stick, Bucket

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Isaac Asimov

Business, Takes, Degree

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
Alexander Hamilton

Country, Support, Less

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Calvin Coolidge

Through, Almost, Mass

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

Confusion, Percent, Agency

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
Thomas Merton

Reverence, Treats, Due

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

Business, Movies, Humanity

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
Anton Chekhov

Democracy, Essence

Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells

Lying, Legalized

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
Jef I. Richards

Art, Creative, Strategy

Advertising is the life of trade.
Calvin Coolidge

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.
Kin Hubbard

Today, Game, Else

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan

Art, Greatest, Century

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
Carl Sandburg

Thinking, Become, Off

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Great, Power

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.
Morris Hite

Talk, Mass, Bother

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy

Women, Men, Business

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana

Worse, Modern, Argument

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Mason Cooley

Says, Ordinary, Images

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

Good, Today, Yourself

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
Gore Vidal

American, Until, Anyone

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
Lord Northcliffe

Rest, Somebody, Wants

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
David Ogilvy

Political, Left, Dishonest

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