Quotes

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'
-Leo Burnett

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-Stephen Leacock

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
-Bill Cosby

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
-Pauline Kael

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
-Anton Chekhov

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
-Thomas Jefferson

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
-Norman Douglas, South Wind

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
-David Ogilvy

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
-Marshall McLuhan

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
-J.B. Priestley

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

Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.
-William Bernbach

Advertising is only another form of statistics.
-Hartman Jule

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
-Jef I. Richards