Advertising Quote by Anonymous

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.

— Andrew Hacker

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…

— Kit Williams

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

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

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves -…

— Jaron Lanier

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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Roy H. Williams

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what…

— Jay Chiat

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?

— Paul Arden