Advertising Quote by Don DeLillo

Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our…

— Iris Smyles

The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can…

— Glenn Frank

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

— Bryant H. McGill

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

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant…

— Bruce Barton

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only…

— Henryk Skolimowski

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and…

— William Feather

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

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

“But if lifestyle ads work by the third-person effect, then there will be some products for which it makes good business sense to target…

— Kevin Simler

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are…

— James Buchan