#Advertising Quotes

“Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.”

“You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.”

“Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.”

“The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.”

“Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.”

“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”

“The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.”

“I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.”

“The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."”

“Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.”

“As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.”

“You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That's false advertising, because that happens the least. That's like if you're advertising a hamburger, they could show a guy choking. "This is what happened once."”

“I had a box of Ritz crackers, and on the back of the box, they had all these suggestions for what to put on top of the Ritz. Try it with cheese. Try it with peanut butter. Come on, man, they're crackers, that's why I got them. I like crackers! I didn't buy them because they're little edible plates!”

“There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with this." Who would make their plants hard to reach? That seems so very mean. I know you need water, but I'm going to make you hard to reach. "Think like a cactus!"”

“I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.”

“XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"”

“When I get a cold sore, I put Carmex on it, because Carmex is supposed to alleviate cold sores. I don't know if it does help, but it will make them more shiny and noticeable. It's like cold-sore-highlighter. Maybe they could come up with an arrow that heals cold sores.”

“This one commercial said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn't know what they were!”

“Every McDonald's commercial ends the same way: Prices and participation may vary. I wanna open a McDonald's and not participate in anything. I wanna be a stubborn McDonald's owner. "Cheeseburgers?" "Nope! We got spaghetti, and blankets."”

“Mitch's Pizzaria... this week's coupon: unlimited free pizza. Special Note: coupon not good at any of the Mitch's Pizza locations. Free pizza oven with purchase of a small Coke. Two-for Tuesday: buy one pizza, get one franchise free.”

“When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.”

“Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.”

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”

“Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.”

“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

“Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit.”

“When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.”

“Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.”

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

“The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!”

“If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce”

“Several months ago, out of the blue, a company named "Cingular" started sending me bills. I had never heard of Cingular, and I honestly did not know what these bills were for, so I put them in the pile where I keep documents that I intend to scrutinize more carefully later on, after my death. Then I started seeing TV commercials for Cingular, but of course they did not make it clear what Cingular is, because the First Rule of Modern Advertising is: "Never reveal what you are advertising."”

“Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.”

“To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.”

“Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.”

“And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.”

“The future of advertising is the Internet.”

“Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.”