Famous Quotes on Advertising

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


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

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred A. Allen

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Laurence J. Peter

Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
Ogden Nash

How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries.
James French

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Archibishop of Canterbury

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
Aldous Huxley

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Leo Burnett

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.
Anonymous

Advertising is legalized lying.
H.G. Wells

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

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
Marshall Mcluhan

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

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Jerry Della Femina

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

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.
E(lwyn) B(rooks) White