Business Quote by Kevin Simler

I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

“In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular…

— Stephen Richards

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

The next generation of luxury consumers are much more socially conscious, and they look to invest in brands that see the world the way…

— Elaine Welteroth

Many media commercials encourage us to believe that if we buy a certain product, we can be physically appealing, or popular, or successful. According…

— John Templeton

Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

— David Ogilvy

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

Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is…

— Claude C. Hopkins

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

— Ann Bridge

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through…

— Theodor Adorno

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