Advertising Quotations
I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't
like ads when they are out of place.
Bill Barnes, How to Blog for Money by
Learning from Comics, SXSW 2006
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete
promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its
function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
If people aren't going to talk about
your product, then it's not good enough.
Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Designing for Community
with Zero-Advertising Brands, SXSW 2006
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is
I don't know which half.
John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922),
(attributed)
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of
advertising.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult
Yankee in King Arthur's Court
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can
find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the
cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are
worthless.
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the
human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a
newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to
Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the
advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied
on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to
Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
What is the difference between unethical and ethical
advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive
the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the
public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962),
"Discovery", 1964
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