Advertising Quotes · Page 30

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

— Christopher Lasch

Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second.

— Mark Jackson

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

The successful advertising agent is the one who can convince the clients that he knows something they don't.

— Justin Cartwright

Advertising is full of great thinkers. This is a powerful industry and does a lot more than we take credit for.

— David Droga

Users want relevant content as advertising. As a result, the distinction between advertising and content is going away. All that matters to…

— Shailesh Rao

The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.

— Jay Abraham

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet,…

— Julie Christie

The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he…

— Edward Bernays

When two kids came along, I couldnt see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from…

— Peter Hambleton

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the…

— Brian Eno

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with…

— Anonymous

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion,…

— Neil Strauss

Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of…

— Jim Speros

You can throw - and we've seen plenty of these kinds of companies - millions of dollars in advertising for a website…

— Alexis Ohanian

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to…

— Fred Allen

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

— Will Rogers

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

— Leon Kass

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise…

— Will Rogers

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

— Ann Bridge

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he…

— William Feather

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising,…

— P. T. Barnum

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

— Dean Acheson

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

— David Ogilvy

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

— Jef I. Richards

What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start…

— Rosser Reeves

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a…

— Terry Gilliam

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a…

— Felicity Jones

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

— Howard Gossage

Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious…

— Margarita Simonyan

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

— Dave Barry

“As the wall between advertising and content erodes, the aptitude required to understand the functions and design of media content becomes more…

— Matthew P. McAllister

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of…

— Leo Burnett

Advertising is found in societies which have passed the point of satisfying the basic animal needs.

— Marion Harper Jr

The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings…

— Brian Solis

Nobody should be allowed to create general advertising until he has served his apprenticeship in direct-response

— David Ogilvy

I don't believe in letting the advertising business get a stranglehold on the entertainment industry.

— Van Heflin

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

— Phillip Adams

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

— Stanley Donwood