advertising

The news is glorified gossip.

The consumer is not a moron. She's your wife.

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

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

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 among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

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 to be seduced.

The art of publicity is a black art.

The best ad is a good product.

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 what you do when you can't go to see somebody. That's all it is.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

If it doesn't sell it isn't creative.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

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.

The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that if we are not careful we forget to be insulted by it.