An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. - Fred Allen The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. - Fred Allen 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 Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. - Raymond Chandler Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. - Raymond Chandler It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise. - Morris Hite School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. - Ivan Illich The relationship between a manufacturer ...

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. - Nat King Cole I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything. - Renny Harlin No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. - Claire Lazebnik There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. - David Ogilvy Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. - David Ogilvy Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.. - Howard Schultz