Advertising Quotes

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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.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

This was Marianne, the revolutionary heroine, the French equivalent of Uncle Sam. This being France, instead of a bearded old uncle who looks as if he should be advertising fried chicken, they have a seminaked woman.

When Web advertising declined in the fourth quarter of 2008, free felt like the future of journalism only in the sense that a steep cliff is the future for a herd of lemmings.

Walter Isaacson

I searched the FM band but there was nothing besides other pious pleaders, and they didn't come in too well. The AM band offered about the same thing, only with worse reception, nothing remotely describable as news, and no music because commercial entertainment as we knew it was no more, and its handmaiden, advertising had gone with it.

James Howard Kunstler

Now as ever, he was startled by the wild exuberance of the twentieth century. All these lights! Colored neon and glaring filaments, powered, he had learned, but mechanical dams spanning rivers hundreds of miles away. And most of this—astonishingly—in the name of advertising.

Robert Charles Wilson

Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America's greatest by-product: fun.

Jackie Jamshed: You know what will come out if I slit my wrists right here and now?
Ishtiaque: Blood?
Jackie Jamshed: Wrong… Koe-pee. I have advertising running in my veins, Ishtiaque.

Ishtiaque Hossain

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model—whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

Bruce Fairchild Barton

I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising.

Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.

Theodore Kaczynski

People are very sophisticated about advertising now. You have to entertain them. You have to present a product honestly and with a tremendous amount of pizzazz and flair, the way it's done in a James Bond movie. But you can't run the same ad over and over again. You have to change your approach constantly to keep on getting their attention....

Mary Wells Lawrence

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Jef I. Richards

If advertising was that powerful, then people would believe there's talking fruit in their underwear.

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

George Santayana

Since the commercialization and banality of editorial magazine pages have made this work uninteresting, advertising has become an increasingly important part of my work. It is interesting to compare European and American mores in regard to my work. One will notice that most of my European images have a stronger sexual content that those destined for American publication. The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

Advertising is selling Twinkies to adults

Donald R. Vance

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

Every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God?

In 1942 when I was in New York, I was struck by the neon advertisements flashing all over Broadway. You are there, you talk to someone, and all of a sudden he turns blue. Then the colour fades - another one comes and turns him red or yellow. The colour – the colour of neon advertising is free; it exists in space. I wanted to do the same in my canvases.

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

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

There's an attitude or a view that the money parents pay in school fees should go to the core business of teaching and learning, and any money that doesn't go there is somehow less-than-appropriate spending. The same attitude doesn't come into play when you go to the supermarket - you just accept that some money will go to advertising... We just want to keep our name there in people's minds.

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

Men now say that they are in the advertising business with just as much pride as the man who says, 'I am a professor at Yale,' or 'I am President of the United States.'