Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says. Votes: 5
Kenneth RomanAdvertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them. Votes: 4
Michael SchudsonAdvertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid. Votes: 4
Carl SaganAdvertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. Votes: 4
Howard RheingoldAdvertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. Votes: 4
James Randolph AdamsAdvertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. Votes: 4
Carrie SnowAdvertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. Votes: 4
James AdamsAdvertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Votes: 4
Stephen LeacockChess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Votes: 4
Raymond ChandlerAdvertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product. Votes: 4
P. T. BarnumYou can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. Votes: 4
Joseph E. LevineAdvertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people. Votes: 3
Morris HiteAdvertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship. Votes: 3
Lester WundermanAdvertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically Votes: 3
Chuka UmunnaAdvertising is a ten billion dollar a year misunderstanding with the public Votes: 3
Chester L. PoseyAdvertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste. Votes: 3
Ralph Washington SockmanAdvertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture. Votes: 3
Anil AmbaniAdvertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good. Votes: 3
Jean-Louis GasseeAdvertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. Votes: 3
Phillip AdamsI am responsible for creating and overseeing the future products that make up Google Advertising. Votes: 3
Susan WojcickiAdvertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is. Votes: 3
Fairfax M. ConeAdvertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. Votes: 3
C.P. SnowAdvertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. Votes: 3
William BernbachAdvertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. Votes: 3
Mark ZuckerbergAdvertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. Votes: 3
Noam ChomskyAdvertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true. Votes: 3
William Wrigley, Jr.Advertising, if it is any good, should help to confirm what already is, not what should be. Votes: 3
Scott BedburyAdvertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. Votes: 2
Thomas MertonAdvertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts. Votes: 2
Peter YorkAdvertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless. Votes: 2
Adolph OchsFor an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth. Votes: 1
Mokokoma MokhonoanaIf you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict Votes: 1
Antonio Nuñez LopezNews is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. Votes: 1
Lord NorthcliffeThe Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. Votes: 1
Naomi WolfThe superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. Votes: 1
ConfuciusLiteracy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment. Votes: 1
Mokokoma MokhonoanaBetween Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation. Votes: 1
Mokokoma MokhonoanaThe first lesson of branding: memorability. It's very difficult buying something you can't remember. Votes: 1
John HegartyThe function of advertising is simply to promote and sustain competitive advantage for brands. Votes: 1
John HegartyWomen who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. Votes: 1
Naomi WolfNarcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person. Votes: 1
Mokokoma MokhonoanaCreative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' Votes: 1
Jef I. RichardsIt did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. Votes: 1
David Foster WallaceOnce a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all. Votes: 1
Mark Crispin MillerI love advertising, because I love self-promotion. I love mirror time, which is Me Time. Votes: 1
Jarod KintzI just realized that the key to advertising can be summed up in one word: Bullshit. Votes: 1
Whitney Gracia WilliamsThe list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics Votes: 1
Jeane J. KirkpatrickA church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert. Votes: 1
Mokokoma MokhonoanaWe are publishers of content and consumers of content at the same time. (D. Abbot, J.Hegarty) Votes: 1
Gordon TorrYou could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing Votes: 1
Brandon Reece TaylorIt is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here. Votes: 1
William Randolph HearstWe have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake. Votes: 1
Meg WhitmanYou're only as good as your next idea. And if you can't agree on that, then it's time to walk. Votes: 1
John HegartyAny fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one. Votes: 1
David OgilvyInsomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places. Votes: 0
Charles SimicAnticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk. Votes: 0
Seth GodinIf advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. Votes: 0
Bruce BartonTelevision, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium. Votes: 0
William S. PaleyAbstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. Votes: 0
Adrienne MonnierThus ideas like subliminal advertising today rarely works and or even exists. Votes: 0
Martin LindstromAll media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different. Votes: 0
Maurice SaatchiMass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising. Votes: 0
Calvin CoolidgeRegardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable Votes: 0
Leo BurnettRegardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable. Votes: 0
Leo BurnettAs advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. Votes: 0
George WillThe best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying, Votes: 0
Mary Wells LawrenceThe printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising. Votes: 0
Jill AbramsonThe biggest mistake businesses make is advertising before they have become well known. Votes: 0
Jeffrey GitomerCreativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest. Votes: 0
Jef I. RichardsThe critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Votes: 0
Pauline KaelThe Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising. Votes: 0
Terry SemelI've been saying for years that page view-based advertising is a corrupting force. Votes: 0
John GruberThere are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising. Votes: 0
Stephen KingReal content marketing isn't repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about. Votes: 0
Seth GodinThe more shame, the more clicks; the more clicks, the more advertising dollars. Votes: 0
Monica LewinskyA viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. Votes: 0
Nicholas JohnsonNews is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. Votes: 0
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount NorthcliffeWe grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. Votes: 0
Zelda FitzgeraldI've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising. Votes: 0
Lee ClowAmerica is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs. Votes: 0
Robert ReichExpensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyOutside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry. Votes: 0
Jay ChiatOne customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising. Votes: 0
Jim RohnChess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency Votes: 0
Raymond ChandlerGoogle has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money. Votes: 0
Nicholas NegroponteWe do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari. Votes: 0
Luca Cordero di MontezemoloIf advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art. Votes: 0
Michael SchudsonEvery time I surrender to stress, arenât I advertising the unreliability of God? Votes: 0
Ann VoskampGood advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them. Votes: 0
Leo BurnettThe only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning. Votes: 0
Raymond RubicamIn the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. Votes: 0
Jef I. RichardsPolitics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need. Votes: 0
Tom TomorrowThe psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising Votes: 0
David OgilvyI believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company. Votes: 0
Robert ScobleI always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising. Votes: 0
Karl LagerfeldI can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. Votes: 0
Arnold J. ToynbeeYahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising. Votes: 0
Terry SemelI don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous. Votes: 0
Gene WeingartenDisplay advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. Votes: 0
John Dos PassosI had to quit triathlons, I continued to be active and worked in advertising agency . Votes: 0
Kristin ArmstrongTOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable. Votes: 0
Blake MycoskieBooks so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. Votes: 0
John GreenYou arenât advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade. Votes: 0
David OgilvyThe most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. Votes: 0
James Randolph AdamsA politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously. Votes: 0
Robert Kane PappasIf you canât advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else? Votes: 0
David OgilvyI was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second. Votes: 0
Shirley PolykoffThere's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising. Votes: 0
Garry WinograndThe time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science. Votes: 0
Claude C. HopkinsI honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Votes: 0
Jerry Della FeminaI have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. Votes: 0
Jan KaronIn the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Votes: 0
Pauline KaelI know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half. Votes: 0
John WanamakerI used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old. Votes: 0
Steve StouteGod never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. Votes: 0
William Peter BlattyOh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising. Votes: 0
Paul W. S. AndersonWhen you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product. Votes: 0
Van JonesHalf the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Votes: 0
John WanamakerHalf the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half. Votes: 0
John WanamakerI left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back. Votes: 0
Elmore LeonardI was never an actor. I had done one or two random projects in my advertising career. Votes: 0
Steve DildarianI do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. Votes: 0
David OgilvySchool is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. Votes: 0
Ivan IllichThe history of media is the market share of advertising dollars has followed.. albeit with a lag. Votes: 0
James PackerNow with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space. Votes: 0
Randy QuaidOn email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work! Votes: 0
Vinton CerfTo be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession. Votes: 0
Bernice Fitz-GibbonConsider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap. Votes: 0
Ezra PoundWhat advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at? Votes: 0
Malcolm ForbesAs a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry. Votes: 0
Nadezhda TolokonnikovaWhat really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. Votes: 0
David OgilvyThe man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonYou can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on. Votes: 0
Roger Corman