Advertising Quote by Raymond Rubicam

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

— Claude C. Hopkins

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

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

— Jef I. Richards

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 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

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Will Rogers

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

— Sinclair Lewis

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, 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 racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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