Funny Quotes about Advertising
However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure.
— Anon
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
— Bill Cosby
In our factory, we make lipstick. In our Advertising, we sell hope.
— Charles Revson
There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.
— David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.
—David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"
— David Ogilvy
It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are a minority of one.
— E. Paul Torrance
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
— Fred A. Allen
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
— George Santayana
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