Advertising Quote by Armin Hofmann

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

— Anonymous

Advertising is full of great thinkers. This is a powerful industry and does a lot more than we take credit for.

— David Droga

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable…

— Christopher Lasch

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

— Joseph Addison

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is…

— Marvin E. Frankel

Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility.

— Leo Burnett

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

— Michael Schudson

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

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

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

— Johan Huizinga

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

— David Ogilvy

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

— Will Rogers