Advertising Quotes

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.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Acknowledging the already considerable power of advertising in American society; by 1917 (George) Creel was approaching the conclusion that ‘people do not live by bread alone; they live mostly by catch phrases.’ If advertising could sell soap or face cream or biscuits, he reasoned, why not a war?

The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.

Advertising agency: eighty five percent confusion and fifteen percent commission.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

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