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A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness.

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

Advertising can be a very frustrating business.

Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

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

Advertising is the life of trade.

Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

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

Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.

Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship.

Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.

Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product

Advertising is brilliant. It's an industry that spends billions and billions of dollars to get you to react the way it wants you to react.

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.

Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy.

Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.

Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second.

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.