Advertising Quote by Howard Gossage

The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

— Claude C. Hopkins

The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning.

— Raymond Rubicam

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will…

— Alain de Botton

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

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

— Will Rogers

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

— Anonymous

Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never…

— Phil Dusenberry

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

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

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

— P. T. Barnum

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

— Seth

Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is,…

— John Treasure