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

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
David Ogilvy

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
Edgar Watson Howe

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
Ellen Willis

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

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
James Randolph Adams

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.
Roy H. Williams

More traffic means more advertising dollars.
Jeff Zucker

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
Michael Schudson

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
Sara Paretsky

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
David Ogilvy

NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.
Rob Zombie

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
Christopher Lasch

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
David Ogilvy

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

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
Christopher Lasch

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.
David Ogilvy

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.
Brit Hume

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.
Jay Chiat