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Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
David Ogilvy

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

Advertising is speech. It’s regulated because it’s often effective speech.
Jef I. Richards

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

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
Nicholas Johnson

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes…
Philip Dusenberry

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret . . . to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
Leo Burnett

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain’t got nothin’.
Leo Burnett

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

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

When business is good it pays to advertise; when business is bad you’ve got to advertise.
Anonymous

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.
Anil Ambani

The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger

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

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
Carrie P. Snow

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
David Ogilvy

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
George Carlin

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time Thomas Jefferson

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.
Will Rogers

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