Advertising Quote by Anonymous

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

— Maurice Saatchi

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises,…

— Samuel Johnson

A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

— Fairfax M. Cone

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

— William Bernbach

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated…

— Dick Wolf

“Advertising can add fuel to a fire, but rarely is it sufficient to start one.”

— Ryan Holiday

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a…

— Ann Bridge

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

— Charles Adams

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

— Mason Cooley

“Whether it honors them well or not, an essay’s fundamental obligations are supposed to be to the reader. The reader, on however unconscious a…

— David Foster Wallace

Advertising is legalized lying.

— H. G. Wells

Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its…

— Mark Crispin Miller