If you’re running a business, it’s important to keep up with the latest trends in advertising. These quotes will give you some inspiration and help you stay ahead of the competition.

The best advertising quotes

1. Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste. — Ralph Washington Sockman

2. As the wall between advertising and content erodes, the aptitude required to understand the functions and design of media content becomes more complex. — Matthew P. McAllister

3. The only prejudice I’ve found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn’t so much prejudice as just fear. — Nat King Cole

4. Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It’s the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have. — Tom Ford

5. I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising. — Vivienne Westwood

6. All advertising advertises advertising. — Marshall Mcluhan

7. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication––Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn’t make it less true. — Steve Jobs

8. An advertising campaign should be timely.A branding campaign should be timeless. — Steven Howard, Marketing Words of Wisdom

9. Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. — Mark Zuckerberg

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

11. Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising. — Terry Semel

12. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. — William Bernbach

13. I’m Phil Knight, and I don’t believe in advertising. — Phil Knight

14. Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed. — Maurice Saatchi

15. The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men–the man he is and the man he wants to be. — William Feather

16. Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. — Noam Chomsky

17. Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising. — Maurice Saatchi

18. There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising. — Stephen King

19. Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. — Thomas Wolfe

20. Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. — Noam Chomsky

21. I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. — William Bernbach

22. A businessman who stops advertising to save money is like a foolish who stops a clock to save time. — Moosa Rahat

23. Advertising is legalized lying. — H. G. Wells

24. Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. — Mark Zuckerberg

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

26. Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. — Phillip Adams

27. Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising. — Maurice Saatchi

28. I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. — William Bernbach

29. He’s advertising himself to be barack’s best buddy. — joe biden

30. Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler

31. Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science. — Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

32. An advertising campaign should be timely.A branding campaign should be timeless. — Steven Howard, Marketing Words of Wisdom

33. There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes. — Tõnu Õnnepalu, Border State

34. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. — William Bernbach

35. Free publicity and word of mouth is probably the best and cheapest form of advertising. Learn to use it to your advantage. — Richard Branson

36. Nc–17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won’t run the spots on MTV, won’t run the advertising. It’s the kiss of death so there was really no other choice. — Rob Zombie

37. God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. — William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

38. Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

39. Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science. — Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

40. Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well–enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it. — Stephen King

41. You don’t defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. — Stephen Harper

42. You don’t defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. — Stephen Harper

43. Free publicity and word of mouth is probably the best and cheapest form of advertising. Learn to use it to your advantage. — Richard Branson

44. God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. — William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

45. Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. — Thomas Merton

46. They’re still advertising the added health–giving advantages of vitamins in your daily diet, although it has long since been shown that you’d be better off eating Smarties. — Terry Wogan

47. We have built one of the best advertising platforms in the world, now it is time for us to fully open up the mobile frontier. — Tim Armstrong

48. I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. — William Bernbach

49. The web is an opportunity for those who understand that the web is a threat. — Massimo Moruzzi, 15 Questions About Online Advertising

50. 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

Conclusion

Advertising is a powerful tool for any business, and the right quotes about advertising can help you create an effective marketing plan that works for your company. The best advertising quotes can help you get your message across in an engaging and memorable way. Hopefully, the quotes we’ve chosen have helped you gain some insight into the world of advertising and inspired you to create a unique and effective marketing strategy.