Advertising Quote by Kit Williams

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

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

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

— Will Rogers

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will…

— Alain de Botton

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

“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

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Advertising is found in societies which have passed the point of satisfying the basic animal needs.

— Marion Harper Jr

Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our…

— Iris Smyles

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

— Allen Klein

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is…

— Marvin E. Frankel