Advertising Quotes · Page 31

I suddenly got magazine covers, TV commercials and advertising campaigns. Finally after two years I could show my mum and dad that…

— Tess Daly

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles,…

— Jon Hamm

They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't…

— Billy Idol

We buy into all kinds of lies that are sold to us from advertising to Fox news or from the Vatican to…

— Jihae

Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.

— Wilson Bryan Key

Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer…

— Carl Hiaasen

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

— Claude C. Hopkins

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells…

— Tom Ford

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

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

— Bob Einstein

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

— Ryan Holiday

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

— George Will

[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

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or…

— Ann Bridge

You know, it's so funny that the internet's become a series of traps where you do sort of innocent things like give…

— Tim Wu

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information…

— John O'Toole

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

— Lenny Bruce

Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically

— Chuka Umunna

The best advertising and the best communication when it comes to business is that which makes you smile, that which makes you…

— Frank Luntz

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful…

— Leo Burnett

It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

— Mark Zuckerberg

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

— Michael Schudson

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress…

— Jaron Lanier

There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

— David Ogilvy

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through…

— Nicholas Negroponte

The argument that most lawmakers make about graffiti is that it's illegal because it's an eyesore, but you could easily argue that…

— Shepard Fairey

Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.

— Roy H. Williams

For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or…

— Adam Cohen

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

— Rocco DiSpirito

You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your…

— Marc Andreesen

I've started to believe that the agency business is a great ingredient of a much bigger business - more than just what…

— Steve Stoute

There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

— Edwin Lefevre

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

— Claire LaZebnik

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

— Ellen Willis

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.

— Jan Koum

No company that markets products or services to the consumer can remain a leader in its field without a deep-seated commitment to…

— Edwin L Artzt

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

— Kit Williams

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

— Frederik Pohl

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do.

— Mark Zuckerberg

The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

— David Ogilvy