Advertising Quote by Bruce Barton

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

— Bruce Barton

Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must…

— Claude C. Hopkins

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

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

— Anonymous

Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their…

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is used.

— J Walter Thompson

Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a…

— Eric Clark

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