Advertising Quote by Andrew Hacker

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

— Anonymous

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough…

— John O'Toole

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will…

— Alain de Botton

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

— Will Rogers

Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing…

— George Carlin

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on…

— Fulton J. Sheen

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate…

— Calvin Coolidge

Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our…

— Iris Smyles

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

— Roy H. Williams

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if…

— Rosser Reeves

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the…

— P. T. Barnum