Thoughts of Advertising Quotes in English with Images

Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn’t happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.

- Simon Mainwaring

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

I don’t know the rules of grammar. If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.

- David Ogilvy

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

- Jerry Della Femina

Building a profitable personal brand online is not a sprint, and something that happens over night. Don’t aim for perfection early on. Instead allow your brand to evolve naturally over time and focus on providing massive value and over deliver to your target audience. Then you will get more clear over your message and brand as well. Always remember that!

- Navid Moazzez

Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.

- Dave Trott

Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process.

- David Ogilvy

Advertising Sayings List in English

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.

- Oscar Wilde

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

- Bill Bernbach Quotation

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.

- A Quotation From Will Rogers

Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.

- Jef I. Richards

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

- Advertising Quotes by George Santayana

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

- George Lois

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

- Henry Ford

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

- Amit Kalantri

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

- David Ogilvy

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.

- David Ogilvy

In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal

- Bill Bernbach

Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.

- Leo Burnett

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

- Albert Einstein Quote

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Advertising is legalized lying.

- H. G. Wells Quote

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

- Bill Bernbach Quote

Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

- Seth Godin

Great content is the best sales tool in the world

- Marcus Sheridan

Curiosity about life, in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

- Leo Burnett

We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in.

- Craig Davis *

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

- David Ogilvy

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at

- Leo Burnett

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

- David Ogilvy

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

- Thomas Jefferson

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

- Tim Bell Download or Share

Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points.

- Jonah Sachs Download or Share

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it well enough yourself.

- Albert Einsteen Download or Share

The worst thing for a brand is to have a kind of false part of who they are exposed out there.

- Lee Clow Download or Share

If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don’t go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.

- Jim Stengel Download or Share

Advertising may be described as te science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

- Stephen Leacock Download or Share

That’s the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

- Samuel Goldwyn Download or Share

I LIKE ads.  It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place.

Bill Barnes Download or Share

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

- Raymond Chandler Download or Share

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

- Advertising by Sinclair Lewis Download or Share

I read no newspaper no but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

- Advertising Quotes by Thomas Jefferson Download or Share

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

- Bill Cosby Download or Share

Advertising is the modern substitute of argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

-  George Santayana Download or Share

If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough.

-  Advertising Quotes by Jeffrey Kalmikoff Download or Share

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

- John Wanamaker Quotes Download or Share

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Mark Twain Download or Share

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas Download or Share

Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

- Thomas Jefferson Download or Share

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga Download or Share

An ad is finished only when you no longer can find a single element to remove.

- Robert Fleege Download or Share

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

- Bill Cosby Download or Share

Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, ‘I just might try it,’ we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.

- Andrew Hacker

Advertising Quotation in English

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

There’s an ad for every vice. That’s advice.

- Brian Spellman

Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.

- Seth Godin

Advertising is the price you pay for having unremarkable product or service

- John Edson

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

- David Ogilvy

Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but story builders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

- Amy Pascal

There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And so are the cake mixes and the detergents, and the margarines… The manufacturer who dedicates his advertising to building the most sharply defined personality for his brand will get the largest share of the market at the highest profit.

- David Ogilvy

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret . . . to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

- Leo

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

- Jeff Bezos

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

- Leo Burnett

Certainly, it seems true enough that there’s a good deal of irony in the world… I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there’s obviously a lot of deception.

- Kenneth Koch

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

- Mark Twain

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

- Sinclair Lewis

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does

- Steuart Henderson Britt

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

- George Kneller

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it’s an ad.

- Howard Luck Gossage

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

- S Leacoc

Creativity and innovation are about finding unexpected solutions to obvious problems, or finding obvious solutions to unexpected problems.

- Rei Inamoto

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

- David Ogilvy Thoughts

There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately, they talk the best game. They know all the rules … but there’s one little rub. They forget that advertising is persuasion, and persuasion is not a science, but an art. Advertising is the art of persuasion.

- William Bernbach

Advertising, as a single entity is capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional.

- William Hesse

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

- Leo Burnett

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

- Leo Burnett

Creativity about life, in all aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

- Leo Burnett

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

- Bill Bernbach

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

- Peter Drucker

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

- David Ogilvy

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your own family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out…

- David Ogilvy

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is — it is what consumers tell each other it is.

- Scott Cook

That’s the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

- Samuel Goldwyn

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon