Advertising Quotes

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

Yes, I sell people things they don't need. I can't, however, sell them something they don't want. Even with advertising. Even if I were of a mind to.

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

I walked out with 14 advertising projects.

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.