Advertising Quotes · Page 33

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the…

— Ann Macbeth

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

— George Lois

“Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it implicitly congratulates both itself and the viewer (for making the joke…

— David Foster Wallace

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising…

— Stephen Covey

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

— David Ogilvy

Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising.…

— Stephen Covey

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

— Stone Gossard

Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.

— Rupert Murdoch

Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of…

— Bernie Sanders

“Cutting advertising budgets is so common. Almost 99.99% of the companies resort to this whenever any problem arises. But this actually makes…

— Pooja Agnihotri

It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have…

— David Ogilvy

It doesn't matter how many people you offend, as long as you're getting your message to your consumers. I say to those…

— Phil Knight

In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year.…

— Howard Fineman

“Advertisement! A device for forcing the unwilling into line. Did it matter to a ground vehicle manufacturer whether a given individual felt…

— Isaac Asimov

I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less…

— Gary Numan

In particular, recently Belgium has banned the sale of a cellphone to a 7-year-old. Turkey has banned ads and advertising to children.…

— Devra Davis

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.

— The Edge

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

— David Ogilvy

Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too…

— Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

“[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.”

— Stefano Benni

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

— Kanye West

I think that my peers deserve more than products to buy wrapped up in advertising. We need ideas to share and causes…

— Adora Svitak

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers,

— Banksy

I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their…

— Walt Mossberg

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

— Rocco DiSpirito

Advertising didn't mix sex up with our daily lives. The great Marketeer in the sky did that.

— Barry Brooks

I think, at the end of the day, Stockhouse will have free services supported by advertising, but we'll also have a number…

— Jeff Berwick

Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be…

— David Ogilvy

Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

— Akio Morita

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

— Anonymous

I've been interested in advertising for a long time; I sort of think a lot about that mechanism, about this tool, which…

— Emma D'Arcy

Lady Gaga is a pop prostitute, a satanic b-- with her fascist and demonic secret signs! Her pop prostitution has more to…

— Nina Hagen

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

— David Ogilvy

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

There's no question that the marketing and advertising world is ahead of the political marketing the political communications world.

— Alexander Nix

If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.

— Seth Godin

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

— Michael Schudson

“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of…

— Emily Post

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in…

— Leo Burnett

“Advertising is just a slightly more scalable form of creating demand than door-to-door sales.”

— Ryan Holiday