Advertising Quotes · Page 32

Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

— Fairfax M. Cone

I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.

— Jennifer Saunders

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

— Leo Burnett

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

— John Wanamaker

One fine day, I realised that advertising was not my calling. I closed shop and plunged into theatre.

— Kay Kay Menon

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he…

— Harold Ramis

Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

— David Ogilvy

“the “advertising lords” of Madison Avenue who “had reduced Christmas to a carnival of mass marketing.”

— Gerry Bowler

Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the…

— Grant Bowler

I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do.…

— Josef Koudelka

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There…

— Richard Donner

The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We…

— Jeff Koons

I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move…

— Lawrence Schiller

The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is…

— Alain de Botton

Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional…

— Marc Ostrofsky

Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it.…

— John Treasure

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

— Ree Drummond

You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.

— Stephen Harper

“If Santa Claus was a politician, he would only put billboards promising the best Christmas presents.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.

— John G. Avildsen

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— George Will

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come…

— Rachael Leigh Cook

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky…

— Sloane Crosley

I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big…

— David Ogilvy

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

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Hopefully celebrities will resist the allure of advertising e-cigarettes in magazines, and also in movies, knowing that their endorsement have a powerful…

— Margaret Cuomo

We have the capital, the resources, and the technology that we need to build a mobile advertising platform across the planet.

— Naveen Tewari

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— Samuel Kermis

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

— Naomi Wolf

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer…

— Claude C. Hopkins

It's false advertising to call Mrs. Obama the First Lady. First Woman, maybe, but certainly not a lady. Ann Romney is an…

— Mitt Romney

Advertising causes conflicts at exactly the most vulnerable age for children to be in conflict with parents.

— John Condry

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

— Daniel Suarez

I make all my advertising decisions based on what is best for my customers and my employees.

— Mike Lindell

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

— Andy Warhol

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

— Jaron Lanier

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling…

— Jim Cantalupo

The ingredients for great advertising haven't changed since the 'Mad Men' era: Brands win if their advertising is relevant and people like…

— David Droga

My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the…

— Joan Cusack