Advertising Quotes

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

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Smile, Money

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• The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

  David Ogilvy

  Marketing, Economy, Persuasive

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Marketing, Environmental, World

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.2, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

  David Ogilvy

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963) ch. 5

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• The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Saving Money, He Man

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• Advertising is legalized lying.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Gideon Planish". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1943.

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• What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Truth, Differences, Marketing

  Discovery (published 1964).

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• You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

  Joseph E. Levine

  Business, Stupid, People

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• I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.

  David Ogilvy

  Beach, Humorous, Successful

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• Advertising is the life of trade.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Trade

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• Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

  Richard Avedon

  High Heels, Legs, Department

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• Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

  William Bernbach

  Running, Business, Numbers

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• A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

  Leo Burnett

  Ideas, Important, Today

  "Street-Smart Advertising: How to Win the Battle of the Buzz" by Margo Berman, (p. 95), 2006.

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• 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

  Wise, Witty, Philosophy

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Economy, Century

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Real, People, Evil

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• Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

  David Ogilvy

  Writing, Men, Agency

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

  George Orwell

  Christian, Political, Socialism

  The Road toWigan Pier ch. 11 (1937)

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• Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

  Pope John Paul II

  Hard Work, People, Evil

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• It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

  Raymond Chandler

  Country, Mind, Way

  1951 Letter to Carl Barndt, 15 Nov.

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• Most agencies run scared, most of the time. . . .Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising. . . . If I were aclient, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to the extent of giving them long-term contracts.

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Agency, Long

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• 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

  Humorous, Wine, People

  "Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief". "The Old Dog Barks Backwards". Book by Ogden Nash, 1972.

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• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Interesting, Community, Internet

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