Advertising Quotes

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

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

More traffic means more advertising dollars.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

Advertising is legalized lying.

'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.

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.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

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.

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.

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.