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Best Advertising Quotes
1. “Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.” ― Amit Kalantri
2. “Advertising – A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.” ― Stephen Leacock
3. “Advertising departments, as you know, are crawling with people whose frontal lobes are so underdeveloped that if you flatter them a bit they’ll swear shit is platinum.” ― Ryū Murakami
4. “Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.” ― Victor Papanek
5. “Advertising doesn’t create a product advantage. It can only convey it.” ― William Bernbach
6. “Advertising expresses a power relationship . . . One person, the advertiser, invades; millions absorb. And to what end? So that people will buy something! A deep, profound and disturbing act by the few against the many for a trivial purpose.” ― Jerry Mander
7. “Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.” ― Fred Allen
8. “Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.” ― William Bernbach
9. “Advertising is legalized lying.” ― H. G. Wells
10. “Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret… to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.” ― Leo Burnett
11. “Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.” ― Will Rogers
12. “Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.” ― William Allen White
13. “Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.” ― Marshall McLuhan
14. “Advertising is the life of trade.” ― Calvin Coolidge
15. “Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.” ― George Santayana
16. “Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.” ― James Randolph Adams
17. “Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.” ― George Orwell
18. “Advertising is the very essence of democracy.” ― Anton Chekhov
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19. “Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, – it largely increases the product.” ― P. T. Barnum
20. “Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosing to spend a lot more time online.” ― Susan Wojcicki
21. “Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” ― David Honegger
22. “Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.” ― Morris Hite
23. “Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.” ― David Ogilvy
24. “Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.” ― David Ogilvy
25. “Advertising says to people, ‘Here’s what we’ve got. Here’s what it will do for you. Here’s how to get it.’” ― Leo Burnett
26. “Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.” ― Carl Sagan
27. “Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.” ― Thomas Merton
28. “Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…” ― George Lois
29. “Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” ― Stephen Leacock
30. “Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.” ― David Ogilvy
31. “As the wall between advertising and content erodes, the aptitude required to understand the functions and design of media content becomes more complex.” ― Matthew P. McAllister
32. “Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.” ― Brian E Boyd
33. “Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’” ― Jef I. Richards
34. “Creativity is an advertising agency’s most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.” ― Jef I. Richards
35. “Digital advertising over the years has been established as a major building block for innovative businesses. The age of old format of advertising has long passed and the earlier business owners realize this, the better.” ― Olawale Daniel
36. “Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.” ― Leo Burnett
37. “Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.” ― David Droga
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38. “History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.” ― Malcolm Muggeridge
39. “I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.” ― Steven Wright
40. “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
41. “Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” ― Mark Twain
42. “Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.” ― Edwin Herbert Land
43. “Marketing used to be about advertising, and advertising is expensive. Today, marketing is about engaging with the tribe and delivering products and services with stories that spread.” ― Seth Godin
44. “Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.” ― David Ogilvy
45. “News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.” ― Lord Northcliffe
46. “Original Sin has great marketing potential.” ― Gene Edward Veith Jr.
47. “The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.” ― David M. Ogilvy
48. “The function of advertising is simply to promote and sustain competitive advantage for brands.” ― John Hegarty
49. “The future of advertising is the Internet.” ― Bill Gates
50. “The market for local advertising is in the billions.” ― Sam Altman
51. “The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.” ― John Berger
52. “The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.” ― David Ogilvy
53. “The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.” ― William Bernbach
54. “The point of advertising is to destroy markets.” ― Noam Chomsky
55. “Traditional media brand advertising is 65% to 70% spend; online, it’s like 28%. You’ve got a huge margin.” ― Ross Levinsohn
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