62 Advertising Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing advertising quotes and sayings.
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Short Advertising Sayings
“Advertising is legalized lying.” —H. G. Wells
“The right name is an advertisement in itself.” —Claude C. Hopkins
“Telling lies does not work in advertising.” —Tim Bell
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” —Norman Douglas
“In good times people want advertise; in bad times they have to.” —Unknown
“There’s an ad for every vice. That’s advice.” —Brian Spellman
“What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.” —David Ogilvy
“Advertising is only another form of statistics.” —Terri Guillemets
“The real question is, will they buy it?” —Noel Peebles
“The public doesn’t particularly care for advertisements.” —John C. Malone
“If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.” —David Ogilvy
“No, it’s not advertising; it’s mind control.” —Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Advertising is the ‘wonder’ in Wonder Bread.” —Jef I. Richards
“People don’t buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.” —Unknown
“Live by publicity, you’ll probably die by publicity.” —Russell Baker
“Advertising doesn’t sell. It manipulates!” —Anthony T. Hincks
“The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.” —Thomas Jefferson
“The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.” —Bill Bernbach
“Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.” —Seth Godin
“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.” —David Ogivly
“Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.” —John Lahr
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” —Mark Twain
“In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.” —Unknown
“Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.” —Unknown
“You cannot sell a man who isn’t listening.” —William Bernbach
“Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.” —Samuel Johnson
“There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.” —Brian Koslow
“If dogs don’t like your dog food, the packaging doesn’t matter.” —Stephen Denny
Advertising Sayings
“The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.” —Thomas Jefferson
“What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.” —David Ogilvy
“The product that will not sell without advertising, will not sell profitably with advertising.” —Albert Lasker
“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you’re doing, but nobody else does.” —Stuart H. Britt
“A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it’s bad.” —Bill Bernbach
“Advertising is like learning – a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.” —Phineas Taylor Barnum
“Creative without strategy is called art.’ Creative with strategy is called advertising.” —Jef I. Richards
“Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.” —Sinclair Lewis
“If you can’t advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else?” —David Ogilvy
“The best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.” —Roy H. Williams
“People don’t think how they feel. They don’t say what they think and they don’t do what they say.” —Sir David Ogilvy
“Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.” —Bill Bernbach
“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” —Peter Drucker
“Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, Images, and concepts of success and worth.” —Unknown
“Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.” —J.B. Priestley
“I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.” —David Ogilvy
“Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.” —Adolph S. Ochs
“Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.” —Leo Burnett
“Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.” —Carl Sagan
“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
“You cannot bore people into buying your product; you can only interest them in buying it.” —David Ogilvy
“Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it’s an ad.” —Howard Luck Gossage
“We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in & be what people are interested in.” —Craig Davis
“Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.” —Amit Kalantri
Top Ten Advertising Sayings
Here you will find top ten advertising sayings selected by our team.
- “There’s an ad for every vice. That’s advice.” —Brian Spellman
- “The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.” —Bill Bernbach
- “The right name is an advertisement in itself.” —Claude C. Hopkins
- “The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.” —Thomas Jefferson
- “Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you’re doing, but nobody else does.” —Stuart H. Britt
- “Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, Images, and concepts of success and worth.” —Unknown
- “We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in & be what people are interested in.” —Craig Davis
- “The product that will not sell without advertising, will not sell profitably with advertising.” —Albert Lasker
- “Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.” —Seth Godin
- “Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.” —Bill Bernbach
