Advertising Quotes

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

I walked out with 14 advertising projects.

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

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

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 interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.

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.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Yes, I sell people things they don't need. I can't, however, sell them something they don't want. Even with advertising. Even if I were of a mind to.

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

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

Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion.

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

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