Advertisers Quote by Marya Mannes

Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a…

— Eric Clark

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

— Jef I. Richards

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

— David Ogilvy

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

— Winston Churchill

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

— Ellen Willis

Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is used.

— J Walter Thompson

Advertising is full of great thinkers. This is a powerful industry and does a lot more than we take credit for.

— David Droga

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering…

— Stephanie Mills

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

Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too…

— Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most…

— David Ogilvy

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

— Paul Valery