Advertising Quote by Stephen Leacock

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

— Stephen Leacock

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about…

— George Lois

Human stupidity truely exceeds my IQ, how can we broadcast a million dollar advert asking for donations

— Joseph Maelane

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on…

— Todd Gitlin

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

— Marshall McLuhan

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

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

— Bob Graham

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

— Claude C. Hopkins

Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly

— Claude C. Hopkins

“Appealing to our subconscious emotions rather than our conscious intellects, advertisements are designed to exploit the discontentments fostered by the American dream, the constant…

— Sonia Maasik

The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices,…

— Paul Baran

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

— Michael Schudson