Advertising Quotes

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.

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.