Advertising Quotes

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

If a claim is worth making, make it in the most impressive way.

Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

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

If you can’t advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else?

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

Advertising is the life of trade.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look, and read.

Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

You aren’t advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade.

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

The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising

When you have nothing to say, sing it.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

Make a Fair Product for a Fair Price, then Tell the World.

It’s not the advertising - it’s the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don’t like it.

We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.

On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

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

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Everything a brand does is advertising.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

Lady Gaga is a pop prostitute, a satanic b - with her fascist and demonic secret signs! Her pop prostitution has more to do with bikini advertising than with warmth.

We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.