Ad Quote by Morris Hite

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

— David Ogilvy

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don’t…

— David Ogilvy

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

A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

— Fairfax M. Cone

We assumed the customers were smart and that they'll buy what they like, not what the ads tell them to buy.

— Renzo Rosso

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer are forgotten.

— Claude C. Hopkins

We run all kinds of ads, as long as they are clearly marked as advertising when there's ever a question. I think advertising is…

— David Remnick

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what…

— Jay Chiat

Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never…

— Phil Dusenberry

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

— Will Rogers

What is a good advertisement? An advertisement which pleases you because of its style, or an advertisement which sells the most? They are seldom…

— David Ogilvy

Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.

— David Droga