Advertising Quote by Evan Davis

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

— William John Locke

Advertising is so touchy-feely. You have to speak to the psyche of the people. I'm not very good at that.

— Thomas Peterffy

I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could…

— Thomas A. Edison

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

— Leo Burnett

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

No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves -…

— Jaron Lanier

I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work…

— Tom Verlaine

I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating

— Delia Smith

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

— George Lois

What is the problem with the advertising industry is they're still, for me, what I call in Africa is the colonial mind of white…

— Berhan Ahmed

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

— Anonymous