Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.
I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.
I hate all adverts for alcohol. They're evil. All of them.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd.
I've written books on advertising-cheque books.
What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?
Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.
There's so much advertising on television that I find just lazy, just so lazy. I'm like, 'Why are they doing that?'
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?'
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.
Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow.
The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.
There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.
Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness.
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
I'm not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I'm embarrassed by a lot of advertising.
