The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference

The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either

Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford

It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position

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

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising

There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections