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

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Thomas Wolfe

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
Leo Burnett

Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion.
Lisa Miller

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
David Ogilvy

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
Michael Schudson

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
Stuart Chase

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
John Lahr

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
David Ogilvy

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
Bob Filner

Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
Peter Hain

Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Stanislaw Lec

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
Jerry Della Femina

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
Fred Allen

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

The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.
Jef I. Richards

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.
Michael Schudson

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
Kit Williams

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
John C. Crosby

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Daniel J. Boorstin