Advertising Quotes

“The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others.”

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

“The insult that made a man out of 'Mac'.”

“These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.”

“A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.”

“Our job is to give the client, on time and on budget, the best advertising in the world.”

“Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!”

“Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.”

“If you do not advertise, you fossilize.”

“It makes your whites whiter and your brights brighter!”

“Advertising is a multi-billion dollar sledgehammer driving a 49 cent thumbtack.”

“The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.”

“Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.”

“We have a saying in the advertising business: 'The client is the enemy.'”

“Throw another shrimp on the barbie.”

“We'll leave the light on for you.”

“There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.”

“Restores, renews, and protects!”

“From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.”

“An ad should be a happening, not a nagging.”