Ads Quote by Augusten Burroughs

Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never…

— Phil Dusenberry

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

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don’t…

— David Ogilvy

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 ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed…

— Simon Sinek

Advertising is so touchy-feely. You have to speak to the psyche of the people. I'm not very good at that.

— Thomas Peterffy

Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is…

— Claude C. Hopkins

I have always felt the word 'advertising' is either a diminutive or derogatory term that kind of goes with stuff people don't like, and…

— Lee Clow

I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

— Dee Rees

Advertising is brilliant. It's an industry that spends billions and billions of dollars to get you to react the way it wants you to…

— Andi Zeisler

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 is profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money, work, and…

— Jennifer L. Pozner