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

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
Ben Nicholson

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

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.
Meg Whitman

We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.
Robert Teeter

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
David Ogilvy

When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.
John O'Toole

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
Clive Cussler

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
Dick Wolf

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.
Jef I. Richards

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
David Riesman

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.
Terry Semel

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.
John O'Toole

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
Joseph E. Levine

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
Norman Douglas

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
Ann Macbeth

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
Dick Gregory

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