Advertising Quotes


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

- Thomas Jefferson

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don`t know which half.

- Adam Couture

I LIKE ads. It`s not that we don`t like ads, we just don`t like ads when they are out of place.

- Aaron Hawkins

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

- Raymond Chandler

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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

- Bill Cosby

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

- Adrian Ortega

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

- Sinclair Lewis

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

- Aeschines

Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is used.

- Arik Hesseldahl

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.

- Albert Einstein

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

- Donald Rumsfeld

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity

- George Carlin

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents

- George Orwell

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don`t have for something they don`t need.

- Will Rogers

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It`s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

- Lily Tomlin

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

- Abraham Lincoln

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie`s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

- Thomas Jefferson

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

- Benjamin Disraeli

If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep us on the right track, leading to a richer, more benevolent society.

- Brian Philcox

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

- Charles Evans Hughes

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

- David Ogilvy

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

- Edgar A. Shoaff

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

- Fairfax Cone

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim`s sympathies

- Henry Brooks Adams

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

- Joseph Priestley

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life

- Joseph Pulitzer

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...

- Philip Dusenberry

Live by publicity, you`ll probably die by publicity.

- Russell Baker

The Miley Cyrus:Best of Both Worlds Tour film is a documentary/ live performance about the creation of one of the biggest tours in the past decade. I was on the road as Miley’s Back Up singer for that tour. The film has great scenes of us rehearsing and us rocking out to 15,000 people from our show in Salt Lake City! The DVD is out!

- Candice Accola