Advertising Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

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.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

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