Best Advertising Proverbs
1021 Advertising quotes by 609 unique authors
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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
— Paul Valery
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We must treat ideas somewhat as though they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the waters. Only a handful will survive but that is…
— Unknown Author
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Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the…
— Renzo Rosso
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I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I…
— Aldous Huxley
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Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.
— Marshall McLuhan
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If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements…
— Philip Slater
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Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.
— Unknown Author
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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are…
— Michael Schudson
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The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements…
— David Ogilvy
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They establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of words ... They communicate…
— Rosser Reeves
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The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not…
— William Bernbach
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Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met.
— Unknown Author
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No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the…
— Carl L. Becker
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TV is the only medium that I've ever been successful with in delivering really emotional messaging and I think as people are trying to work…
— Jill McDonald
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I think TV is still, out of every medium, the one that really offers simple easy enjoyment. You've got lots of choice, you've got the…
— Jill McDonald
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TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly with that message.
— Jill McDonald
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Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you…
— Rosser Reeves
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The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.
— Claude C. Hopkins
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Branding Through Customer Service Over the years, the number one driver of our growth at Zappos has been repeat customers and word of mouth. Our…
— Tony Hsieh
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Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of…
— Charles Evans Hughes
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In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and…
— Terry Gilliam
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News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
— Katharine Graham
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Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete…
— Ellen Lupton
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