Advertising Quotes

I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.

The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex.

There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way.

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

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

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.