Advertising Quotes

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

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

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility.

By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon

Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

Plan the sale when you plan the ad

Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

Because I'm in advertising, not electricity!

Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

Jesus Christ didnt commit the gospel to an advertising agency; He commissioned disciples. And He didnt command them to put up signs and pass out tracts; He said that they would be His witnesses.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

It's never the next brief, it's ALWAYS THIS brief .

More traffic means more advertising dollars.

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

The smartest advertising is the advertising that communicates the best and respects the consumer's intelligence.

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.