Best Advertising Sayings

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I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon… — David Ogilvy
To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?" — David Ogilvy
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is… — Jerry Della Femina
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy. — Louis Kronenberger
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce… — P.J. O'Rourke
Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. — P T Barnum
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. — Noam Chomsky
[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not… — Elvis Costello
In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal. — William Bernbach
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is. — Fairfax M. Cone
Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears. — William Bernbach
Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say. — David Ogilvy
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. — Bruce Barton
Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its… — Bob Garfield
You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some… — Seth Godin
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can… — P.J. O'Rourke
[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the… — James Dyson
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes… — Charles Kettering
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic! — William Bernbach
The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to… — Samuel Johnson
[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don't like… — Charles Krauthammer
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. — Dean Acheson
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts. — Samuel Goldwyn

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