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A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

Nicholas Johnson

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

David Ogilvy

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.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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

Bill Cosby

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

George Will

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.

Steuart Henderson Britt

Advertising is "the lubricant for the free-enterprise system."

Leo-Arthur Kelmenson

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

Fairfax Cone

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

George Orwell

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Bill Cosby

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

Jef I. Richards

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission

Fred Allen

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.

James Randolph Adams

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.

James Randolph Adams

Advertising is a ten billion dollar a year misunderstanding with the public.

Chester L. Posey

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interest them, and sometimes it's an ad.

Howard Luck Gossage

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

David Ogilvy

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

William Bernbach

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic

Samuel Johnson

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

Sinclair Lewis

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

William Bernbach

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

Leo Burnett

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