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Quotes about Advertising


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

Stephen Leacock

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Will Rogers

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

Stephen Leacock

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!

Tom Lehrer

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Joseph E. Levine

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

Fred Allen

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

Stephen Butler Leacock

Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.

Ralph S. Butler

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.

Robert W. Sarnoff

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Stuart Chase

The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.

Albert Lasker

Advertising is the life of trade.

Calvin Coolidge

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.

Steuart H. Britt

You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Joseph E. Levine

In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . .

John Wanamaker

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Derby Brown

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

Fran Lebowitz

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Fred A. Allen

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

Jerry Della Femina

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

Tim Bell

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?.

Mark Edwards

Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.

William Bernbach

Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

Ralph W. Sockman

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

John Lahr

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