289 quotes found
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
“The best ad is a good product.”
“The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.”
“The number of agency people required to shoot a commercial on location is in direct proportion to the mean temperature of the location.”
“Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.”
“Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.”
“If I were starting life over again I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization a...”
“Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.”
“The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived less from the desire to seduce than from the desire t...”
“The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.”
“Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.”
“The art of publicity is a black art.”
“Advertising is legalized lying.”
“Advertising is what you do when you can't go to see somebody. That's all it is.”
“The consumer is not a moron. She's your wife.”
“When business is good it pays to advertise when business is bad you've got to advertise.”
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
“Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.”
“The news is glorified gossip.”
“It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.”
