Action Quote by Seth Godin

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 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 the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

— Leo Burnett

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 simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and…

— Raymond Rubicam

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated…

— Dick Wolf

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

I have always felt the word 'advertising' is either a diminutive or derogatory term that kind of goes with stuff people don't like, and…

— Lee Clow

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

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

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

— David Ogilvy

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

— Daniel Starch