Advertising Quotes

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

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

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

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

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

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

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.