Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
—Sinclair Lewis
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
—Rod Serling
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
—Stephen Leacock
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
—Marshall McLuhan
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
—Vilhjalmur Stefansson
I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place.
—Bill Barnes
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
—George Santayana
If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough.
—Jeffrey Kalmikoff
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
—John Wanamaker
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
—Mark Twain
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
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
—Thomas Jefferson
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
—Marshall McLuhan
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
—Peter Ustinov