QUOTES & QUOTABLES FROM THE WORLD OF ADVERTISING
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--Aldous Huxley
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
--Stephen Leacock*
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
--Sinclair Lewis*
Few people at the beginning of the twentieth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
--John Kenneth Galbraith*
When you start a country club, get a few admen for members. You need somebody who gets all the jokes.
--Anonymous
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't need to advertise it.
--Will Rogers*
Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.
--Franklin P. Jones*
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
--Nicholas Johnson*
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
--Edgar A. Shoaff*
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
--Mark Twain*
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
--Marshall McLuhan*
In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.
--Bruce Barton*
Advertising agency: eighty-five percent confusion and fifteen percent commission.
--Fred Allen*
The longest word in the English language is the one following "And now, a word from our sponsor."
--Hal Eaton*
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
--Stuart Henderson Britt*
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
--Norman Douglas*
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
--Thomas Jefferson*
Advertising, of course, has been part of the mainstream of American civilization, although you might not know it if you read the most respectable surveys of American history. It has been one of the enticements to the settlement of this New World, it has been a producer of the peopling of the United States, and in its modern form, in its worldwide reach, it has been one of our most characteristic products.
--Daniel Boorstin
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 eloquences sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic. Promise--large promise--is the soul of advertising.
--Samuel Johnson*
Advertise, or the sheriff may do it for you.
--P.T. Barnum (attributed)*
Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.
--Ralph Butler*
A good thing sells itself; a bad thing advertises itself for sale.
--East African saying*
*These quotes are from a book I highly recommend: And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker, by Ashton Applewhite, et al. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992).
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