One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far. (Quote by - Mahesh Bhatt)

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. (Quote by - Nicholas Johnson)

Censorship is advertising paid by the government. (Quote by - Federico Fellini)

The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

Why now, these fellows are only advertising my book; it is surely better a man should be abused than forgotten. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

The corporation has decided that advertising is the best way to capitalize, rather than charging for access. (Quote by - David Moody)

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)

Advertisers for the Super Bowl tend to be willing to pay a reasonable premium to reach a special audience. We don't have Olympic viewing parties. Pretty much to me, that says it all. This happens every four years. But it seems that the Super Bowl and Olympics somehow find a way to co-exist. (Quote by - Bill Carroll)

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)

We're very excited. They're advertising us as a showcase for the world. (Quote by - Charlie Van Voorst)

Key word and paid searches should continue to grow at a rapid rate, as will the online advertising market and retail sales. We are forecasting double-digit growth for each of these sectors. (Quote by - Scott Kessler)

The financial services industry has seen advertisers a little more hesitant to come online, but that's changed in the last six months with banks and trading platforms coming online as they see the competition doing it. (Quote by - David Minkin)

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. (Quote by - James Randolph Adams)

She takes big glossy advertisements for fur and she refuses to run any anti-fur ads, even paid ones, so she's a big fur supporter. (Quote by - Yvonne Taylor)

Growth in specialty advertising was a little lower than expected but subscriber revenue growth outperformed expectations and overall specialty revenue growth for the first quarter was in line. (Quote by - Andrea Horan)

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal. (Quote by - William Bernbach)

Most agencies run scared, most of the time.. Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising..If I were a client, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to the extent of giving them long-term contracts. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)

For a long time, because it goes against the message that the advertising world sends to you, they were ashamed they didn't have the coolest clothes, the coolest cars, couldn't afford to go here, buy this and do that. I think we finally all got together and went, 'You know what? We like being this way.' . (Quote by - Jeff Foxworthy)

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)