Quotations on advertising

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-Stephen Butler Leacock
The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.
-Albert Lasker
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.
-Derby Brown
Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.
-Ralph S. Butler
Advertising is the life of trade.
-Calvin Coolidge
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.
-Fred Allen
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
-Robert W. Sarnoff
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
-Stuart Chase
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
-Steuart H. Britt