Advertising Quotes

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

CBS is the largest out-of-home advertising company in the U.S.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

Advertising is the life of trade.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.

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.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.