Advertising Quote by Fairfax M. Cone

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to…

— Richard Branson

Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious.

— Jay Chiat

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

— Storm Jameson

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

— Michael Schudson

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

— Roger Ailes

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 the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

— Edgar A Shoaff

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly…

— Marshall McLuhan

We should want our advertising to be compelling.

— Norman Pearlstine

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

— William Bernbach

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from…

— Clarissa Ward

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about…

— George Lois