Advertising Quote by David Ogilvy

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

Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another,…

— David Ogilvy

Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says.

— Kenneth Roman

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer are forgotten.

— Claude C. Hopkins

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please their seller. The interest of the buyer is forgotten

— Claude C. Hopkins

When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product.

— Jan Koum

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

Consumers will purchase high quality products even if they are expensive, or in other words, even if there are slightly reasonable discount offers, consumers…

— Satoru Iwata

“The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the…

— Noam Chomsky

We assumed the customers were smart and that they'll buy what they like, not what the ads tell them to buy.

— Renzo Rosso

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if…

— Rosser Reeves

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a…

— Ann Bridge