Quotations
Quotes:
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
View quotes by David Ogilvy
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
View quotes by 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.
View quotes by David Ogilvy
We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.
View quotes by Christy Turlington
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
View quotes by David Ogilvy
Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
View quotes by David Ogilvy
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
View quotes by David Ogilvy
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
View quotes by David Ogilvy
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
View quotes by David Ogilvy
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
View quotes by Dean Acheson
The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
View quotes by Fred Allen
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
View quotes by Fred Allen
I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.
View quotes by William Bernbach
Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.
View quotes by William Bernbach
Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
View quotes by William Bernbach
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
View quotes by Daniel Boorstin
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
View quotes by Pope John Paul II
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhan
