Advertising Quote by David Ogilvy

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

— David Ogilvy

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

— Leo Burnett

I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and…

— Mitt Romney

When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

— Mark McKinnon

Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids…

— Michael Schudson

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them…

— Leo Burnett

Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in…

— Daniel Starch

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

— John O'Toole

“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics course, you…

— Noam Chomsky

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be…

— David Ogilvy

Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious and harmful…

— Margarita Simonyan

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits.…

— Brian Eno