“The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interest them, and sometimes it's an ad.”
Howard Luck Gossage
“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”
Will Rogers
“The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.”
Jef I. Richards
“If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.”
“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.”
Pope John Paul II
“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
Mark Twain
“Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.”
Morris Hite