Advertising Quotes

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose… the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

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

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 […]

Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.

The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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

News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things.