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

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

— Marshall McLuhan

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 fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

— William Bernbach

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

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 the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

— Dick Wolf

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

— Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

— Jef I. Richards

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

— Maurice Saatchi