Advertising Quotes

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion.

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

We make programming decisions on a day-to-day basis. We sell advertising on a day-to-day basis. This is the way networks operate. This is the way all television stations operate. This is the way most businesses operate when you have a number of affiliates or a number of franchises. It's the way the business operates.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

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

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.