Advertising Quote by Jef I Richards

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

— David Ogilvy

[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're…

— Rex Smith

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

— David Ogilvy

“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,…

— Haruki Murakami

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.

— Bruce Barton

I suspect that there is no other single profession that does more to contribute to our annoying linguistic convolutions than advertising, unless it's politics.

— Jef I Richards

Advertising has always been the 'head boy' of the communications industry, but not anymore. Now the rest - creative, digital, and media - is…

— Richard Edelman

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

— Howard Gossage

Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for…

— Bryce Courtenay

“To hold down advertising is to have nearly the entire publishing and broadcasting industries under your thumb. There’s not a branch of publishing or…

— Haruki Murakami

“After all, the media have been and are the major dispenser of the ideals and norms surrounding motherhood: Millions of us have gone to…

— Susan J. Douglas

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising…

— Claud Cockburn