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 is the very essence of democracy.
- Anton Chekhov
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
- Marshall McLuhan
Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.
- William Bernbach
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
- J.B. Priestley
Advertising is only another form of statistics.
- Hartman Jule
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
- Bill Cosby
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
- Norman Douglas, South Wind
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock
Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
- Jef I. Richards
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
- Pauline Kael
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
- David Ogilvy
