Quotes

“History will see advertising as one the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

– Malcom Muggeridge, English journalist and satirist

“Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.”

– Fairfax M. Cone, American businessman

“Advertising is legalized lying.”

– H. G. Wells, English writer

“Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes, it’s an ad.”

– Howard Gossage, American advertising innovator

“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”

– Stephen Leacock, Canadian humourist

“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better”

~ George Santayana, American philosopher and poet

"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."

~ Will Rogers, American performer and actor