Our society’s values are being corrupted by advertising’s insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
John Fisher – Advertising
There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
Fairfax Cone – Advertising
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
Leo Burnett – Advertising
Asked about the power of advertising in research surveys, most agree that it works, but not on them.
Eric Clark – Advertising
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen – Advertising
The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements.
Thomas Jefferson – Advertising and newspaper
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
David Ogilvy – Advertising
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
David Ogilvy – Advertising
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.
William Feather – Advertising
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain – Advertising
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
J.B. Priestley – Advertising
Next to Christianity, advertising is the greatest force in the world. And I say that without sacrilege or disrespect. Advertising makes people discontented. It makes them want things they don’t have. Without discontent, there is no progress, no achievement.
Morris Hite – Advertising Force
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.
Zelda Fitzgerald – Advertising
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas – Advertising
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.
