Advertising Quotes, Sayings about advertisements
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
– Norman Dougla
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.
– David Ogilvy
Give them quality. That’s the best kind of advertising.
- Milton Hershey
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
- Samuel Johnson
The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.
- James Randolph Adams
In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn’t danced on TV.
- Erma Bombeck
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.
In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
- David Ogilvy
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.
- William Feather
The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements.
- Thomas Jefferson
Advertising is legalized lying.
- H. G. Wells
Advertising – A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
- Stephen Leacock
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- George Santayana
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
- Edgar A. Shoaff
Advertising is what you do when you can’t go see somebody. That’s all it is.
- Fairfax Cone
Advertising is only another form of statistics.
– Hartman Jule
The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it’s an ad.
- Howard Luck Gossage
The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.
- Albert Lasker