| "The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. (via Think Exist)" George Carlin |
| "The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme. (via Warc)" William Hesse |
| "Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless. (via Direct Creative)" Adolph S. Ochs |
| "The industry produced ads that sold product. But that was before the industry contacted the dreaded Award disease. Advertising was used as a sales tool during that era. (via Bizcommunity.com)" John Farquhar |
| "Online advertising will serve as a catalyst for change in the traditional ad business. Media integration and the inevitable erosion of traditional markets will be more important than the effects of online ad dollar growth. (via Great-Quotes.com)" Patrick Keane |
| "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. (via Book of Famous Quotes)" Laurence J. Peter |
| "When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly. (via Direct Creative)" John O'Toole |
| "The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. (via Direct Creative)" William Feather |
| "Audiences everywhere are tough, they don't have time to be bored or brow beaten by orthodox, old fashioned advertising. (via Wajeez Articles)" Craig Davis |
| "The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising. (via Direct Creative)" Albert Lasker |
| "The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad. (via Direct Creative)" Howard Luck Gossage |
| "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. (via Direct Creative)" Mark Twain |
| "The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print. (via Direct Creative)" Daniel Starch |
| "Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't. (via Finest Quotes)" Morris Hite |
| "I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. (via Warc)" Steven Wright |
| "Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations. (via Warc)" Josh Hunt |
| "Give them quality, that's the best kind of advertising. (via Wajeez Articles)" Milton Hershey |
| "Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. (via Warc)" Bill Bernbach |
| "Advertising, to be successful, must be truthful or it ceases to be read or believed, and at that point it ceases to be advertising. ( via Warc)" William A Marsteller |
| "Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. ( via Quote Garden)" Will Rogers |
| "Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. (via QuoteGarden)" David Ogilvy |
| "We've got to know what we've got a choice of. This is the function of advertising. (via Adland.tv)" Tom Dillon |
| "Advertising sure brings quick results--last week I advertised for a night watchman--the same night my safe was robbed. (via Adland.tv)" Anonymous |
| "I think that I shall never see an ad so lovely as a tree. But if a tree you have to sell, it takes an ad to do that well. (via Texas advertising and public relations)" Jef I. Richards |
| "Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising. (via Direct Creative)" Andrew Hacker |
| "Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea. (via Direct Creative)" David Ogilvy |
| "I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to the people who see it every week. Bad advertising can unsell a product. (via Direct Creative)" David Ogilvy |
| "The next time you're in a meeting, look around and identify the yes-butters, the not-knowers, and the why-notters. Why-notters move the world. (via Adland.tv)" Louise Pierson |
| "A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. (via Brainy Quote)" Nicholas Johnson |
| "Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' (via Glowing Embers)" Jef I. Richards |
