Advertising Quotes

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

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

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

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.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

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.

The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

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.

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

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.