Abiding Quote by Bruce Barton

Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

— William Wrigley, Jr

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means…

— Joseph Addison

“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

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

— William Bernbach

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things…

— Ann Bridge

The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what…

— Mark Ruffalo

Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and…

— Raymond Rubicam

The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has…

— Freya Stark

The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most…

— David Ogilvy

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

— Aldous Huxley

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought…

— Samuel Johnson

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly…

— Marshall McLuhan