Advertising Quote by Neal Adams

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

— Will Rogers

The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn…

— Noam Chomsky

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves -…

— Jaron Lanier

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

— Claude C. Hopkins

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

If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading…

— Jules Henry

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 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 serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable…

— Christopher Lasch

Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their…

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

— Jef I. Richards