Advertising Quotes

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

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.

I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place.

If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

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.

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.

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

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.