Entrepreneurship & Business: Marketing Quotes

Explore a curated collection of marketing quotes that highlight strategy, creativity, customer insight, and measurable impact. These selections offer quick reminders about positioning, branding, messaging, and channel choice, helping you think clearly and act decisively. Use them to spark campaign ideas, motivate teams, or refine pitches. Whether focusing on product-market fit, storytelling, or analytics, these quotes encourage testing, learning, and continuous improvement toward sustainable growth.

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"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths"

Edgar A. Shoaff, Writer

"If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

David Ogilvy

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

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"Advertising is legalized lying"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"Information about the package is as important as the package itself"

Frederick W. Smith, Businessman

"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"The most powerful element in advertising is the truth"

William Bernbach, Businessman

William Bernbach

"People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it"

Simon Sinek, Writer

Simon Sinek

"If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless"

Jef I. Richards, Professor

Jef I. Richards

"Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

David Ogilvy

"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

Lee Iacocca

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far"

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Value is what people are willing to pay for it"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"The purpose of a business is to create a customer"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

Peter Drucker

"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Warren Buffett

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

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"No agency is better than its account executives"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

Samuel Goldwyn

"Another dynamic of this last year was our increased penetration into the Japanese market"

David Milne, Artist

David Milne

"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

Malcolm Muggeridge

"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience"

Debbi Fields, Businesswoman

Debbi Fields

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it"

William Bernbach, Businessman

William Bernbach

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half"

John Wanamaker, Businessman

"In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to"

Bruce Barton, Author

Bruce Barton

"Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose"

Carrie P. Snow, Writer

"The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly"

John O'Toole, Politician

"It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope"

Charles Revson, Businessman

"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them"

David Fincher, Director

"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

Peter Drucker

"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"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"Telling lies does not work in advertising"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

Stanislaw Lec

"What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

David Ogilvy

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