Quotes about advertising

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers. – Philip Kotler

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have on things they don’t need. – Will Rogers

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. – David Ogilvy

Advertising is the voice of your brand. – Brian Chesky

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and beliefs. – Leo Burnett

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. – David Ogilvy

Advertising is what you do when you can’t go see somebody. That’s all it is. – Fairfax Cone

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. – Harry McCracken

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. – 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

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. – William Bernbach

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and beliefs. – Leo Burnett

Advertising is selling Twinkies to adults. – Donald R. Vance

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. – David Ogilvy

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers. – Philip Kotler

I don’t know the rules of grammar… If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. – David Ogilvy

The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing. – Tom Fishburne

Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. – Seth Godin

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

Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition. – Dave Trott

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. – Peter Drucker

There is no such thing as a boring product, only boring marketing. – David Ogilvy

The consumer is not a moron, she is your wife. – David Ogilvy

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

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

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. – David Ogilvy

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. – David Ogilvy

Our job is to convert people’s dreams into mechanical reality. – William Bernbach

If you can’t make money, you can’t make sense of advertising. – Leo Burnett

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. – David Ogilvy

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and beliefs. – Leo Burnett

Great advertising is telling a true story, well told. – David Droga

Advertising is your key to successfully marketing your products and services. – Michael R. Baker

Advertising is determinedly and reliably aspirational in its content. – Dave Trott

Advertising is a craft. We are not saving lives here, but we are saving jobs and livelihoods, and that matters. – Sir John Hegarty

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

The bigger the idea, the smaller the budget. – Catherine Taine

There’s a way to do it better—find it. – Thomas A. Edison

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you’re doing, but nobody else does. – Steuart Henderson Britt

Let us herald the consumer, the king of all… He reigns supreme. – Stanley Pollitt

Patience and perseverance are the pillars of success. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon. – Seth Godin

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it’s surfaced through friends and people they know and trust.- Malorie Lucich

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. – Albert Einstein

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative. – David Ogilvy