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The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.

Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

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

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

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.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

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

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.