Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need. ( Will Rogers)

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. (Steuart Henderson Britt)

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes. ( Philip Dusenberry)

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ( Mark Twain)

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising. ( James Randolph Adams )

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them. ( Will Rogers)

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. (Joseph E. Levine)

Advertising is legalized lying. (H. G. Wells)

In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn’t danced on TV. (Erma Bombeck)

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Stephen Leacock)

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. (Leo Burnett)