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| Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. | | Mark Twain | |
| Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission | | Fred Allen | |
| Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. | | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. | | Marshall McLuhan | |
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| Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. | | Leo Burnett | |
| Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. | | Will Rogers | |
| Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. | | Edgar A. Shoaff | |
| Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. | | William Allen White | |
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| Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. | | George Santayana | |
| Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. | | George Orwell | |
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| 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. | | Winston Churchill | |
| Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.' | | Leo Burnett | |
| As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents | | George Orwell | |
| Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. | | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. | | Leo Burnett | |
