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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Advertising is literally an attempt to monetize our restlessness.

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

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

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

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

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Advertising as we now know it started not on Madison Avenue but in another city: Berlin. With another group of power brokers: the Nazis. They took the ideas of an Austrian psychotherapist named Freud,...

Have you noticed the ever-increasing arm of advertising in our lives? According to a New York Times article, supermarket eggs have begun to be stamped by CBS television shows, turnstiles in subways ar...

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

The distance between rationality and advertising is now so wide that it is difficult to remember that there once existed a connection between them.”

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.

The influence of the familiar on our lives is something that advertisers never forget. The point of advertising is to capitalize on real needs or to create needs and then to provide a product to fill ...

“Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising,” announced Lord Peter sententiously, “is like leaven, w...

Don Draper: This is the greatest advertising opportunity since the invention of cereal. We have six identical companies making six identical products. We can say anything we want. How do you make your...

I once heard a sermon that compared believers to commercials for God. “And God doesn’t need any bad commercials,” I remember the preacher saying. It stuck with me, and from then on I often made decisi...

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.”

Advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a community than the editorial columns are.

When an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer. And so, the balance of business expenditures shifts from product research to market research...

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

...You are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don’t flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it—they supplant it.