Advertising Quotes

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.

When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising.

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.