Advertising Quotes

When business is good it pays to advertise; when it is bad you have got to advertise.

Consumers are trained to “want” that to which they are most continually exposed. Wants do not originate in some vague realms of the consumer’s personality; they are formed by an elaborate apparatus of jingle and fashion, of persuasion and fraud.

Freedom! To spit in the eye and in the soul of the passerby and the passenger with advertising.

Advertising is the fine art of making you think you have longed for something all your life that you never heard of before.

Advertising is the life of trade.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

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

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Advertising is the mouthpiece of business.