Advertising Quotes

Advertising is the fine art of making you think you have longed for something all your life that you never heard of before.

The first step toward freedom will be a new respect for the symbol, a purification and clarification of language itself, an abstention from unclean slogans and conditioned verbal reflexes. The death of the advertising agency and the propaganda bureau will be one of the surest signs of the birth of a new society.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Like most endeavors, life is seriously over-advertised and under-funded.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

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

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.

Advertising is the mouthpiece of business.

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

The sign brings customers.