Marketing Quote by Ira Lewis

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Never run advertising until the major publicity possibilities have been exploited.”

— Al Ries

“I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best. We sniffle…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Advertising departments, as you know, are crawling with people whose frontal lobes are so underdeveloped that if you flatter them a bit they'll swear…

— Ryū Murakami

“...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of…

— David Riesman

“Dear Journal, I just realized that the key to advertising can be summed up in one word: Bullshit.”

— Whitney G

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

— George Lois

“Advertising is a craft executed by people who aspire to be artists, but is assessed by those who aspire to be scientists. I cannot…

— Luke Sullivan

The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.

— Robert Waterman McChesney

“Young people, not to mention people of all ages, really, really don't like being annoyed. And ads, almost always, were annoying. There is nothing…

— Andrew Essex

“When one comes to the ultra-modern profession of advertising," responded Schliemann—"the science of persuading people to buy what they do not want—he is in…

— Upton Sinclair

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”

— Jeff Hammerbacher