Advertising Quotes

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

I’m not against advertising. It’s okay for Miller to tell us how good their beer is and it’s okay for politicians to tell us how great they are, but I don’t want to hear it from a doctor or a lawyer.

I do not read advertisements – I would spend all my time wanting things.

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

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

Truth in advertising? Then it wouldn’t be advertising!

The man who on his trade relies must either bust or advertise.

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.

When trade grew slack, and notes fell due, The merchant’s face grew long and blue; His dreams were troubled through the night With sheriff bailiffs all in sight. At this his wife unto him said “Rise up at once, get out of bed, And get your paper, ink, and pen, And advertise to all good […]

You may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.