Advertising Quote by James Webb Young

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

— Morris Hite

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

— Johan Huizinga

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

— Frank Farrington

Over the years, advertising had become very lazy, very visual. Visuals are important, yes, but as a part of the story.

— David Droga

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the…

— P. T. Barnum

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

“If advertising simply provided information, it would be hard to object. But a lot of advertising makes us feel we need something that we…

— Gabrielle Palmer

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't…

— David Ogilvy

“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

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 is profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money, work, and…

— Jennifer L. Pozner