Advertising Quotes

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

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.

The art of publicity is a black art.

We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

I've written books on advertising-cheque books.

Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

There are unlimited opportunities for display advertising. In fact, we're in the process of massive change in the display industry - how it's bought, how it's sold, and how it's targeted.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

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 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.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

All advertising advertises advertising.

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.