Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people’s lives. and you know, most people’s fantasies are pretty sad.
Advertising Quotes
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.
Remember, the function of the advertising agency is not to sell the product to the customer – it is to sell the “ad” to the “client”.
The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result – to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn’t need, or to make him think […]
In the world of advertising, there’s no such thing as a lie. There’s only expedient exaggeration.
Advertising isn’t a science. It’s persuasion. And persuasion is an art.
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
I’m not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
