Advertising Quote by Leo Burnett Download Open image “Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable” — Leo Burnett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advertising Character Corruption Dishonesty Honesty Issues Moral
Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in… — Daniel Starch Copy Share Image
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless. — Jef I. Richards Copy Share Image
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has… — Morris Hite Copy Share Image
There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids… — Michael Schudson Copy Share Image
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative. — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad's room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes. — Howard Gossage Copy Share Image
We have the capital, the resources, and the technology that we need to build a mobile advertising platform across the planet. — Naveen Tewari Copy Share Image
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I happened to be spotted by a modeling agent who offered me a part-time job at 16. Everything happened very quickly after that -… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. — Sharon Gless Copy Share Image
I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves… — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. — Joss Stone Copy Share Image