Advertising Quotes
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.
William Feather
There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.
Morris Hite
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
Leo Burnett
If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.
James Randolph Adams
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
Kit Williams
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.
Julie Christie
I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.
Elia Kazan
There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.
Jef I. Richards
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
Christopher Lasch
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.
Leo Burnett
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.
Billy Crudup
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
William Bernbach
It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
Edward Bok
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
Carrie P. Snow
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.
Richard Donner
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.
Leo Burnett
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Mason Cooley
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.
Rosser Reeves
I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.
Will McDonough
I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
Augusten Burroughs