Advertising Quotes

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

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.

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.

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.

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

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.

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.

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.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

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.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

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.

Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.

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

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

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.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.