Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

— John Wanamaker

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

— Marissa Mayer

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

— David Ogilvy

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

If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence.

— Joseph Pulitzer

If it's not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

— Jef I. Richards

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

— Ken Robinson

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.

— Dave Obey