You’ve come a long way, baby. (1960s)
Advertising Quotes
He who has a thing to sell, And goes and wishes in a well, Will not as likely get the dollars, As he who climbs a tree and hollars.
A good thing sells itself, a bad one advertises itself.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
Mark Twain once edited a paper in Missouri. One of his subscribers wrote to him that he had found a spider in his paper and wanted to know whether it meant good luck or bad. Mark’s answer: “Old Subscriber: Finding a spider in your paper was neither good luck nor bad luck for you. The […]
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people’s lives. and you know, most people’s fantasies are pretty sad.
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
Advertising is legalized lying.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn’t have to advertise it.