Failure Quote by Terry Powell

“Dear Journal, I just realized that the key to advertising can be summed up in one word: Bullshit.”

— Whitney G

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

— Samuel Johnson

If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must…

— Anonymous

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

— Freya Stark

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

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them…

— Leo Burnett

“Clever advertising can convince people to try a bad product once. But it can’t convince them to buy a product they’ve already tried and…

— Robert W. Bly

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

We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely…

— Lewis M. Branscomb

“The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Fairfax M. Cone

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