Advertising Quote by J Walter Thompson

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a…

— Eric Clark

Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has…

— Morris Hite

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

— Anonymous

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

— Sinclair Lewis

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this,…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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

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

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

— Howard Gossage

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