This collection holds 14 advertising business quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are William Bernbach, David Ogilvy and P. T. Barnum.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

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.

I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.

I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

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