Advertising Quotes

Advertising is legalized lying.

— H. G. Wells

An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet

— Lee Clow

“Content Is King, Distribution is Queen”

— Anonymous

Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

All advertising advertises advertising.

— Marshall McLuhan

“Sex sells, but gay sex sells better.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

“No conflict no story”

— Antonio Nuñez Lopez

Digital advertising is now larger than TV.

— Henry Blodget

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.

— Tim Wu

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

— Samuel Johnson

Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.

— Jean-Louis Gassee

Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn.

— Edward Boches

Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

— Maurice Saatchi

Money is flowing out of traditional advertising into experiential, social, and sports.

— Richard Edelman

“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.”

— Amit Kalantri

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

— Noam Chomsky

What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.

— Daniel Lyons

I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.

— Lucrecia Martel

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her…

— Seth Godin

And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse,…

— Frank O'Hara

advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

— Freya Stark

It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does…

— Gerard J Tellis

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

— Kit Williams

I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that…

— Rajkumar Hirani

The consumer has become increasingly sophisticated in the way they obtain and digest information - of the simple reason that they've become…

— Martin Lindstrom

“Whenever manufacturers claim to be responding to a ‘need’, it seems that people have to be reminded through advertising in case they…

— Gabrielle Palmer

No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind,…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies…

— Michael Moss

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make…

— Peter Coyote

In Europe, a product must be good, or it will not sell in competition with other products; with you, it is enough…

— Ann Bridge

Of course, a lot of businesses want to reach students, so I funded the magazine by selling advertising. I sold something like…

— Richard Branson

'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers…

— Justin Cartwright

Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world -…

— James Frain

SETH said: There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That…

— Jane Roberts

“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.…

— Naomi Wolf

It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's…

— John Kessel

The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects,…

— Paul Baran

Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by…

— Mark Crispin Miller

Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of…

— Edward Bernays

In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to…

— Guy Cook