Advertising Quotes
Advertising Quotes
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) 30th U.S. President
Advertising is legalized lying.
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946) English writer
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
- Archibishop of Canterbury
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
- Bruce Barton (1886-1967) US congressman, ad man (invented “Betty Crocker”)
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
- William Bernbach 1911-1982, American Advertising Executive
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) US writer
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
- George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
- Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), American author, stateswoman, and women’s rights advocate
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
- John Wanamaker







