Advertising agency Quote by David Ogilvy

To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"

— David Ogilvy

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

— Ilka Chase

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't…

— David Ogilvy

“The job of a marketing agency is to produce results that impact the bottom line. It's that simple.”

— Paul Roetzer

“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

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

I've started to believe that the agency business is a great ingredient of a much bigger business - more than just what typical advertising…

— Steve Stoute

“Ad agencies continue to believe that improved creativity is the answer for agency and client problems.”

— Michael Farmer

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

— David Droga

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

“It's such a moronic strategy, it can only have come from a trained marketing professional.”

— Bob Hoffman

Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.

— George Arthur French