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

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.
John Hughes

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.
Michael Schudson

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

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
Leon Kass

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
John Wanamaker

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.
Leo Burnett

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George Will

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
Robert McChesney

'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?
Charles Edwards

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.
Jay Chiat

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.
Jim Cantalupo

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
David Ogilvy

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.
Kenneth Koch

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.
Roy H. Williams

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