Ability Quote by Leo Burnett

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, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if…

— Rosser Reeves

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

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed…

— Jaron Lanier

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated…

— Dick Wolf

Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and…

— Raymond Rubicam

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take…

— Seth Godin

The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

— Claude C. Hopkins

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

— Anil Ambani

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

— Daniel Starch

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever…

— Robert W. Sarnoff

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a…

— Daniel Starch