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Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out. — George Lois

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print. — Daniel Starch

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them. — John Elliott

The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won. — Robert Waterman McChesney

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium. — Robert Altman

Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly — Claude C. Hopkins

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end. — Mitch Hedberg

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. — Frederik Pohl

I don't have many expenses as a college student (mostly food) so I'm able to put advertising revenue right back into the production of new videos. — Marques Brownlee

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention. — Michiel Huisman

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe. — Rene Girard

Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising. — Simon Mainwaring

Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact — Claude C. Hopkins

If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict — Antonio Nunez Lopez

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. — Hanif Kureishi

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials. — The Edge

My father did advertising photography. — Andreas Gursky

All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness. — Jack Beal

Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society. — David Ogilvy

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth. — Brene Brown

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far. — Mahesh Bhatt

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do. — George Thorogood

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct? — David Ogilvy

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing — Dean Cavanagh

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question. — Jerry Della Femina

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. — David Ogilvy

I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business. — Jerry Della Femina

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

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising. — James Randolph Adams

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. — Steven Wright

On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work! — Vinton Cerf

The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying, — Mary Wells Lawrence

We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure. — Robert Teeter

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos. — Bill Vaughan

I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising. — Lee Clow

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer. — Archibald MacLeish

In his final years of life, Hopkins took to the lecture circuit. His talks on the "Laws of Scientific Advertising" attracted thousands of people. — Charles Duhigg

I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second. — Shirley Polykoff

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry. — Jay Chiat

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic. — William Bernbach

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back. — Elmore Leonard

Today, one must pay for a world where there is nothing to buy. — Girish Kohli

If a claim is worth making, make it in the most specific way — Claude C. Hopkins

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. — Claire LaZebnik

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something. — William Bernbach

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. — Marshall McLuhan

Great advertising, in and of itself, becomes a benefit of the product. — George Lois

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination — Claude C. Hopkins

TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable. — Blake Mycoskie

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. — William Bernbach

When you break it down, Yahoo! is a Very Large Display Advertising business, with a hefty side of search and a bit of this and that on top. — John Battelle

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. — Richard Avedon

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mind-changing is the road to advertising disaster. — Al Ries

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising. — James Collins

It would appear that Advertising is getting the clients it deserves. — Creative Social

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

More traffic means more advertising dollars. — Jeff Zucker

You don't sell the product, you sell the philosophy. When you sell a product, you have customers, when you sell a philosophy, you have believers. — Soumeet Lanka

The real future of the Hispanic targeted media and advertising is in English. — David Morse

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

Don't play semantic games with the prospect. Advertising is not a debate. It's a seduction. — Al Ries

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. — James Randolph Adams

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. — William Bernbach

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense. — Jason Calacanis

Sad to say, negative advertising really works. — Jerry Della Femina

Control is an advertising concept. — Andrew Miller

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. — Isaac Asimov

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. — Arnold J. Toynbee

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. — Fred Allen

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. — Leo Burnett

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. — Chuck Palahniuk

Online advertising is display plus search. — David Filo

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything. — David Ogilvy

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. — Kit Williams

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick. — George Lois

The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific. — Mason Cooley

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! — Tom Lehrer

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art. — Michael Schudson

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously. — Robert Kane Pappas

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. — William Allen White

I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas — David Ogilvy

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising. — Bob Filner

Differentiation is a zero-sum, advertising-based game. — Seth Godin

A celebrity's body is an advertiser's canvas. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The internet is the most underutilized advertising medium that's out there. — Mary Meeker

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. — W. Somerset Maugham

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens. — Robert W. Sarnoff

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. — Leo Burnett

An infinite advertising budget cannot counteract products that are disconnected from our biological heritage. — Gad Saad

Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies. — Frank Beddor

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

One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising. — Jim Rohn

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising. — Jerry Yang

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one. — David Ogilvy

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose ... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible. — David Ogilvy

Content Is King, Distribution is Queen — Andrea Febbraio

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business — David Ogilvy