An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready -- even eager -- to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

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

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

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the ad increases.

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries.

That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

No agency is better than its account executives.

The right name is an advertisement in itself.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

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

If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.

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

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

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

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.