Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

— David Ogilvy

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

— Stephen Leacock

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

— Fred Allen

As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.

— Jerry Della Femina

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.

— George Lois

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

— Jay Chiat

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

— Federico Fellini

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

— Raymond Chandler

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

— Jef I. Richards

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

— Leo Burnett