Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan

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

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.
James Randolph Adams

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.
Michael Schudson

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
Harold Ramis

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
Jef I. Richards

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
Michael Schudson

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
Kit Williams

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
David Ogilvy

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

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.
David Obey

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.
William Bernbach

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.
William Bernbach

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.
Terry Gilliam

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
Thornton Wilder

In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex.
Jef I. Richards

In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.
Leo Bogart

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
Richard Attenborough

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Pauline Kael