Advertising Quote by Anonymous

The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.

— Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

“Advertising can only maintain brands that have been created by publicity.”

— Al Ries

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

— Christopher Lasch

The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the…

— David Ogilvy

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

— Michael Schudson

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be…

— George Arthur French

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

— Pauline Kael

The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices,…

— Paul Baran

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what…

— Walter Lippmann

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

— Enoch Powell

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

— Leo Burnett