advertising

1.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

- Lahr, John

2.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

- Adams, James R.

3.

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.

- Rogers, Will

4.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

- White, William Allen

5.

Advertising is legalized lying.

- H.G. Wells

6.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

7.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

- Louis Kronenberger

8.

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.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

9.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

- Revson, Charles

10.

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.

- Powell, John Enoch

11.

If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough.

- Jeffrey Kalmikoff

12.

If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.

- Levinson, Jay

13.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

- Norman Douglas

14.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

- Stephen Leacock

15.

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result -- to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

- Marvin E. Frankel

16.

Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.

- White, Elwyn Brooks

17.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

- Bernbach, William

18.

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

- Allen, Fred A.

19.

The right name is an advertisement in itself.

- Hopkins, Claude

20.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

- George Santayana