Advertising Quotes · Page 18

Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.

— Claude C. Hopkins

“Today, one must pay for a world where there is nothing to buy.”

— Girish Kohli

Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship.

— Lester Wunderman

When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.

— Jared Leto

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

— Jill Abramson

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

— Peter York

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

— Anonymous

“No, it's not advertising; it's mind control”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic…

— George Thorogood

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

— C. Edwin Baker

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

I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to…

— Tim Wu

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like…

— Kathryn Minshew

If you want to be a model, then you should probably become an actor. That's the only way to get hired to…

— Stephanie Seymour

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and…

— Roy H. Williams

Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we…

— Ryan Holiday

I had no ambition to go into show business when I was growing up. I started out as an advertising copywriter and…

— Bob Einstein

[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business……

— Elvis Costello

As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more…

— George Will

The censors were great. There's always back and forth. But it's 'Hostel 2', it's not 'Happy Feet 2'. Everybody knows what Hostel…

— Eli Roth

Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without…

— Anonymous

“Gillette--The best a man can get." I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of…

— Craig Ferguson

The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the…

— Bruce Bartlett

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics…

— Noam Chomsky

In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the…

— Robert Lawlor

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they…

— Abram Hoffer

Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don't you do it?

— Dale Carnegie

It's never the next brief, it's ALWAYS THIS brief .

— Paul Arden

“Never run advertising until the major publicity possibilities have been exploited.”

— Al Ries

Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.

— David Packard

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

— Michael Schudson

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

— John Hodgman

Nothing could be more restrictive than working with people in advertising.

— Taika Waititi

If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table

— Steve Henry