Advertising Quotes
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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to. (Quote by - Norman R. Augustine)
Advertising looks fun and easy to do. So does playing the piano, Until you try it. (Quote by - Stavros Cosmopulos)
A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
It's mostly the weather, but there may be other issues. It's been around a little longer, there is more advertising through word of mouth. (Quote by - Bill Threlkeld)
Target has the best advertising marketing campaign in retailing. They do an amazing job of elevating a discount store to a very cool destination shop and so they are always pushing the envelope. (Quote by - Bill Dreher)
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)
The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. (Quote by - James Randolph Adams)
Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! (Quote by - Tom Lehrer)
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising. (Quote by - James Randolph Adams)
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. (Quote by - Carrie P. Snow)
We are advertised by our loving friends. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.. (Quote by - Philip Dusenberry)
Advertising signs that have been misplaced, are expired or have been put up in advance of a sale's start date can wind up costing consumers much more than they expected to be charged. Many consumers do not watch the register or do not check receipts while still in the store and will only find out later, if at all, that they have been overcharged. (Quote by - Charles Gardner)
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status. (Quote by - Ralph S. Butler)
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
We saw it advertised on TV and in the newspaper, and decided to bring the kids here. (Quote by - William Lewis)
Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. (Quote by - John Lahr)
Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)
We're certainly looking at advertising-supported, subscription, PPV and anything else that comes along. (Quote by - Bernard Gershon)
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
These efforts toward product differentiation could face future legal challenges from the networks. Also, the potential advertising opportunity could take several years to scale, if at all. (Quote by - Tuna Amobi)
As our initial click fraud research study showed last year, there is an obvious problem in the online advertising world. The challenge is that I'm not sure anyone really knows the extent of the click fraud problem. (Quote by - Flint McGlaughlin)
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper. (Quote by - Thomas Dooley)
When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt. (Quote by - Clive Cussler)
Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages. They must understand the language of each new product, and speak the language of each new target audience. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. (Quote by - Stephen Wright)
Asked about the power of advertising in research surveys, most agree that it works, but not on them. (Quote by - Eric Clark)
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is. (Quote by - Fairfax Cone)
You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising. (Quote by - John Nance Garner)
Constitutional law has developed since then. The American Bar Association has developed new model rules for advertising. The trend is to conform to the Constitution but protect the public. Also the commission feels the rules, as presently written, are very complex. (Quote by - Bill Turner)
The discussion is on how to enhance the uniform to better reflect the essence of our advertising and marketing efforts and to create uniforms that are more contemporary and in line with the spirit of our 'forever young, forever fun' campaign,. (Quote by - Bill Whitman)
Advertising is at about 4 percent of revenue at this point. We are dealing with national advertisers that need a certain amount of reach before they really start advertising a lot. We see 10 percent as a reasonable number. (Quote by - Gary Parsons)
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed. (Quote by - Edward Boches)
This change would leave 79 percent of television programming available for alcohol advertising and would reduce youth exposure to alcohol advertising by 20 percent. (Quote by - David Jernigan)
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
We do at least one a week. We also develop our own leads and check out false advertisements in the newspapers. We don't just wait for complaints to come to us. We want to go out and find the bad guys. (Quote by - Carl Vega)
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Our recent advertising has focused on renewable energy because we created a separate business entity last year. But we've never pretended that the bulk of our business isn't in oil and gas. (Quote by - Wendy Silcock)
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. (Quote by - Steuart H. Britt)
When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly. (Quote by - John O'Toole)
Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. (Quote by - James Randolph Adams)
Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print. (Quote by - Daniel Starch)
A good thing sells itself, a bad one advertises itself. (Quote by - African Proverb)
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
Search is brewing at a much faster rate than display advertising. The display piece of Internet advertising is about six percent of the total share. If you add search it will exceed 10 percent, which is a fairly major milestone. (Quote by - CEO Steven Fredericks)
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. (Quote by - Robert W. Sarnoff)
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. (Quote by - Lauren Bacall)
We read advertisements.. to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)
Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
What we've done is combined them with some sort of backlit campaign. You want to use the cling advertisements on the floor to complement what's on the board. (Quote by - Scott Fransen)
I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising. (Quote by - Lee Clow)
You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. (Quote by - Stephen Harper)
Comparing the European online advertising market to that in the US, you could say that Europe is about two years behind the US. But then you have to ask the question, are we talking about all of Europe, just Western Europe or a specific nation?. (Quote by - David Hallerman)
To a certain extent advertisers may be more comfortable running in the swimsuit than they were before the growth of those magazines,. (Quote by - Dave Morris)
Target advertising and things like that hit you, and they're annoying, but that's really only half the concern. The real concern is what kind of information is being collected about you, if your bank is doing something with it, and whether you know about it or not. (Quote by - Frank Torres)
When I get the redesign launched, there will be minimal advertising. I'm doing this because I believe I've found a tasteful and non-intrusive way to help support my family. (Quote by - Wil Wheaton)
I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. (Quote by - Edgar A. Shoaff)
A vast sector of modern advertising.. does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
As click fraud continues to artificially increase the cost of online advertising, erode the return on investment to advertisers, and continues to reach beyond search marketing into affiliate marketing and display advertising, we feel that Litmus' reliable solution to protect our advertising clients' investment is a key ingredient to being more effective in maximizing the ROI from their online advertising spend and provides us with a competitive, proprietary, competitive advantage in the marketplace. (Quote by - Scott Mitchell)
Our concern in Montreal is mainly with the advertising. The actual cars are pretty good. (Quote by - George Iny)
I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
One thing Bristol doesn't need is more advertising, .. All they have to do is print the tickets and open the gates. (Quote by - Gary Baker)
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. (Quote by - Joseph E. Levine)
No company that markets products or services to the consumer can remain a leader in its field without a deep-seated commitment to advertising. (Quote by - Edwin L. Artzt)
A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising. (Quote by - James Collins)
There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise. (Quote by - Morris Hite)
There is no such thing as modern art. There is art,and there is advertising. (Quote by - Albert Sterner)
The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. (Quote by - George Carlin)
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. (Quote by - Dorothy L. Sayers)
We are proud of another record revenue quarter in our advertising business and are pleased with our overall 2005 results in light of the continued challenging environment surrounding the mobile value-added service sector in China. (Quote by - Wang Yan)
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. (Quote by - Joseph Priestley)
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. (Quote by - Lord Northcliffe)
Advertising is the very essence of democracy. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. (Quote by - William Allen White)
It's not that much of a stretch to be advertising on the PGA. (Quote by - Gary Bongiovanni)
Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this. (Quote by - Bill Wyman)
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
The best advertising for this is spring. Snow melts, the trash is revealed and it is disgusting. And you can't help but have the urge to get out of your car and pick up that can or bottle, and this is just an organized way to do it safely. (Quote by - Caroline Bradford)
Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie isn't normal. The irony is that they are appealing to normal people to buy the product because they want them to identify with an exotic life that they don't lead. (Quote by - Cary Cooper)
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. (Quote by - George F. Will)
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. (Quote by - Roland Barthes)
In the past we've had people there, but we didn't advertise it. (Quote by - Carley Cummins)
Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Advertisers would like alternatives to the big guys. They don't like being beholden to just two or three companies. (Quote by - David Hills)
With money spent on incentives, you can see results immediately. Advertising effectiveness is a much bigger question mark. I think you have seen a marketing budget realignment, with more money going toward incentives rather than advertising. (Quote by - David Lucas)
The United Methodist Church is advertising. The United Church of Christ is advertising. They're losing membership and are asking themselves how to get new crowds out there. It's a competitive market and they're reading the writing on the wall. (Quote by - Albert Miller)
The right name is an advertisement in itself. (Quote by - Claude C. Hopkins)
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. (Quote by - Stuart Chase)
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today. (Quote by - C. Edwin Baker)
The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, .. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience. (Quote by - Craig Detweiler)
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens. (Quote by - Lester Beall)
Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)
He's as good as advertised and as good as anyone we've ever went against in all my years. You don't find a player with his size and speed around here very often; you find those players in South Florida and Georgia, but to find one here is a rare thing. (Quote by - George Quarles)
There's a major change going on in the whole advertising community. It has to do with the fact that, traditionally, people are not watching 30-second commercials. (Quote by - Bill Squadron)
The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising. (Quote by - Albert Lasker)
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
Both events went magnificently. They also used temporary tattoos and rubber stamps as new, innovative mediums for advertising the fair to 12 to 24-year-olds. (Quote by - Scott Smith)
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I don't know which half. (Quote by - William Hesketh Lever)
I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to the people who see it every week. Bad advertising can unsell a product. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
This advertising revenue will help merchants offset processing fees. (Quote by - Carl Towner)
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising. (Quote by - William Randolph Hearst)
The consistent growth in overall revenues shows marketers may be shifting more of their total advertising budgets to online. This is a natural development as research shows more consumers are spending a larger percentage of their media time online, while the flow of advertising dollars follows. (Quote by - David Silverman)
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Our whole basis is a repair shop you can trust. Our best advertising has been word of mouth. So I think we are doing the right thing. (Quote by - Scott Chapman)
The congresspersons who are co-sponsoring the bill are being beat up in their districts with negative advertising. We need to go to them and say we understand; we're here to help and on your side. (Quote by - Charlie Norwood)
Advertising is selling Twinkies to adults. (Quote by - Donald R. Vance)
Our advertising partnership with Allegiant Air is a natural fit for us. Branding encompasses everything from good customer service to strategic advertising positioning and targeting. This in-air branding exercise will allow us to target a specific player demographic, while continuing to expand the presence of our brand throughout the continental United States. (Quote by - Calvin Ayre)
Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. (Quote by - Joseph Pulitzer)
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast. (Quote by - Brian Koslow)
The real future of the Hispanic targeted media and advertising is in English. (Quote by - David Morse)
We find that advertising works the way the grass grows. You can never see it, but every week you have to mow the lawn. (Quote by - Andy Tarshis)
When there's more engaged users, more advertisers want to be in front of them,. (Quote by - Charles Buchwalter)
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Plan the sale when you plan the ad. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people. (Quote by - Morris Hite)
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
We booked $21 million of advertising against that down payment in the first 12 days of selling, .. All of a sudden, the speculation that we overpaid went away. (Quote by - George Bell)
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply. (Quote by - Leo Bogart)
There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)
Investors have been expecting strong advertising and search revenues, .. We believe that significant upside above $620M in revenues is needed to act as a positive catalyst for the stock and we believe potential of such an upside is limited. (Quote by - Safa Rashtchy)
It's a very sad day for Greenville and for the advertising community in general. (Quote by - Andy Mendelsohn)
Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward. (Quote by - Gary Pruitt)
Oh Ronald McDonald when you smile each of your teeth gravestones stands for billions and billions of lives. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos. (Quote by - R. H. Coase)
In the past, TV advertising was too expensive, difficult and time-consuming for local businesses. In addition, conventional ad agencies simply aren't equipped to serve local customers. Now that Spot Runner has brought the entire advertising process online, even the smallest local business can capitalize on the power of television to build its brand and attract new customers. (Quote by - Nick Grouf)
It is a disguised effort to advertise the achievements of the incumbent president directly or indirectly boost or further the campaign of the incumbent president and give him undue advantage over his opponents. (Quote by - Charles Mubbale)
The students will be looking at how advertising and public relations are practiced in London, and they will be comparing that to how those disciplines are practiced here in the U.S.. (Quote by - Beth Barnes)
I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
I suspect it'll have more impact on the advertising arena than the news arena. (Quote by - Bill Rogers)
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is test. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film. They advertise memories. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
Media reports that the technology is aimed at blocking people from skipping advertising is just half of the truth. It could go either way. You could use it to skip ads or to have people stick to the advertising. (Quote by - Andre Manning)
There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. (Quote by - Fairfax Cone)
Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat. (Quote by - Dizzy Dean)
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Subliminal advertising does not affect consumer buying behavior, advertising recall, or any other marketplace behavior. (Quote by - Jack Haberstroh)
We are going to keep Web sites, we're going to do advertising as two organizations. (Quote by - Warren Elliott)
It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement, and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look and read. Therefore, study the graphics used by editors and imitate them. Study the graphics used in advertisements, and avoid them. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
The visual vocabulary and aesthetics of the cartoon have influenced graphic artists and advertising style since the 1940s. An example of this in advertising would be Pop Art, and more recently [seen] in the feature film 'Sin City'. (Quote by - Will Hipps)
Advertising is "a ten billion dollar a year misunderstanding with the public. (Quote by - Chester L. Posey)
This is an age group that has been ignored by most retailers, manufacturers and advertisers. This group has taken their spending to the places that reach out the them: travel, restaurants, upscale supermarkets and casinos. (Quote by - Candace Corlett)
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)
Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't. (Quote by - Morris Hite)
Advertising is the life of trade. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Because advertisements generally cost less in tabloids than in broadsheets, the paper has focused on convincing potential skeptics of the format's benefits, said Carolyn McCall, chief executive of Guardian Newspapers. We must have seen 600 clients and agencies before we launched the paper, .. We talked them through it - the vision, why it was so important, the design, the layout, how the ads looked - and every single media company has bought ads at the same value as before. (Quote by - Carolyn McCall)
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)
Advertising is turning into this math problem for them. At some point, who cares whether it's print or online or skywriting or whatever?. (Quote by - Gary Stein)
There are quite a few votes to be won by saying we will tax advertising or stop it. (Quote by - Barry Day)
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, "Let there be light," constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse. (Quote by - Bruce Barton)
Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless. (Quote by - Adolph S. Ochs)
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales. (Quote by - Michael Schudson)
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
On the financial side, direct selling has low overhead, robust cash flow and there's little need for an advertising budget because that's what your sellers are doing for you. (Quote by - Amy Robinson)
The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interest them, and sometimes it's an ad. (Quote by - Howard Luck Gossage)
Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham. (Quote by - Johnny Rotten)
The question was whether the government could (regulate advertising) under the provisions of the act,. (Quote by - David Kessler)
One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far. (Quote by - Mahesh Bhatt)
Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. (Quote by - Nicholas Johnson)
Censorship is advertising paid by the government. (Quote by - Federico Fellini)
The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Why now, these fellows are only advertising my book; it is surely better a man should be abused than forgotten. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The corporation has decided that advertising is the best way to capitalize, rather than charging for access. (Quote by - David Moody)
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)
Advertisers for the Super Bowl tend to be willing to pay a reasonable premium to reach a special audience. We don't have Olympic viewing parties. Pretty much to me, that says it all. This happens every four years. But it seems that the Super Bowl and Olympics somehow find a way to co-exist. (Quote by - Bill Carroll)
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
We're very excited. They're advertising us as a showcase for the world. (Quote by - Charlie Van Voorst)
Key word and paid searches should continue to grow at a rapid rate, as will the online advertising market and retail sales. We are forecasting double-digit growth for each of these sectors. (Quote by - Scott Kessler)
The financial services industry has seen advertisers a little more hesitant to come online, but that's changed in the last six months with banks and trading platforms coming online as they see the competition doing it. (Quote by - David Minkin)
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. (Quote by - James Randolph Adams)
She takes big glossy advertisements for fur and she refuses to run any anti-fur ads, even paid ones, so she's a big fur supporter. (Quote by - Yvonne Taylor)
Growth in specialty advertising was a little lower than expected but subscriber revenue growth outperformed expectations and overall specialty revenue growth for the first quarter was in line. (Quote by - Andrea Horan)
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
Most agencies run scared, most of the time.. Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising..If I were a client, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to the extent of giving them long-term contracts. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
For a long time, because it goes against the message that the advertising world sends to you, they were ashamed they didn't have the coolest clothes, the coolest cars, couldn't afford to go here, buy this and do that. I think we finally all got together and went, 'You know what? We like being this way.' . (Quote by - Jeff Foxworthy)
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. (Quote by - George Orwell)
It's very much an advertising campaign. By far, the most common gun in the West was the shotgun. (Quote by - David Kennedy)
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. (Quote by - Richard Avedon)
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. (Quote by - Pierre Charron)
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. (Quote by - George Santayana)
In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. (Quote by - Peter Nivio Zarlenga)
We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative. (Quote by - Christy Turlington)
It's the most popular among advertisers, which is a rating of its own. (Quote by - Charley Johnson)
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)
I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance. (Quote by - Stephen Wright)
Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well. (Quote by - Gary Pruitt)
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. (Quote by - George Norman Douglas)
We think that there is a connection between pornography, advertising and violence towards women, but it's not a direct causal link. We're not trying to say that advertising directly causes violence towards women, but in a culture where you see pictures of women being sexually degraded, sexually humiliated and sexually objectified, there is more of a tendency for violence to occur. (Quote by - Matt Ezzell)
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?. (Quote by - Calvin Trillin)
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Yes, I sell people things they don't need. I can't, however, sell them something they don't want. Even with advertising. Even if I were of a mind to. (Quote by - John O'Toole)
Consumerism is an antipollution drive in relation to the toxic areas of advertising. (Quote by - Tony Schwartz)
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. (Quote by - Derby Brown)
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. (Quote by - Zelda Fitzgerald)
They are reviving the Dodge Charger for boomers. But they don't advertise that the instrument panels are larger, the bucket seats are an inch wider on both sides or that the seats are a bit higher so you don't sink so low. The car is designed for you as you age, but they won't say that. (Quote by - Sarah Zapolsky)
People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,. (Quote by - Frank Dobson)
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
This is the most solid piece of research evidence to come forth to date linking exposure to alcohol advertising and increased youth drinking. (Quote by - David Jernigan)
Video is the future of digital advertising - no other advertising vehicle combines the sight, sound and motion of television ads with the interactivity, targeting and measurability of the Internet. (Quote by - David J. Moore)
Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
James Bond, a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon.. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
I think it all comes down to Wal-Mart's aggressive advertising campaign. They are being much louder with their campaign, and I think they've done a good job of stealing the 'early-bird' holiday shoppers. (Quote by - Bill Dreher)
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,. (Quote by - Gary Pruitt)
Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
The two immutable laws of communications and advertising:(Quote by - 2: Then you must instantly pique their interest. )
Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
The more alcohol advertising kids are exposed to, the more likely they are to drink, and drink heavily. We have stronger and stronger research showing there is a link to advertising. (Quote by - David Jernigan)
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret.. to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones. (Quote by - Joanne Lipman)
If that's what we're going to do, let's advertise. Let's go full time. (Quote by - Carley Cummins)
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
He opened with a new one-liner about Microsoft's new advertising slogan: Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system, .. I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too. (Quote by - Scott McNealy)
Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
I would like to be head of an advertising agency. (Quote by - Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor)
With free e-mail, the more accesses there are, the more money they potentially make from advertising sales, so they don't put that much thought into the design of the system for security. (Quote by - Ira Winkler)
Knowledge of music business gives us access to artists, talent and a unique approach to performing services for advertising. Not to mention the branding implications of unique music with original sense for linking an advertiser, its message and its target. (Quote by - David Lowery)
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. (Quote by - Warren E. Burger)
There is more money wasted in advertising by underspending than by overspending. Years ago someone said that underspending in advertising is like buying a ticket halfway to Europe. You've spent your money but you never get there. (Quote by - Morris Hite)
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
Although the online advertising industry has been growing at a phenomenal rate, almost $26 million of potential online ad space is going unsold every week. (Quote by - Charlie Buchwalter)
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Quote by - Stephen Leacock)
The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in. (Quote by - Yakov Smirnoff)
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Now, by 2004, Jupiter is projecting a $2 billion advertising market. So we can see very quickly how the dollars are starting to get invested, and we'll be able to take our fair share out of that. (Quote by - Fernando Espuelas)
Young people are threatened.. by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. (Quote by - Sinclair Lewis)
And we haven't started our advertising campaign yet. (Quote by - Peter O'Meara)
That's completely inaccurate. We have a long history and strong track record of supporting diversity in our advertising. (Quote by - Dave DeCecco)
Traditional television broadcast advertising strives to raise consumer awareness of a product or service, in the hope that a consumer will remember that product or brand when making a purchasing decision. (Quote by - David Mandelbrot)
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. (Quote by - William Feather)
The main value driver..is in developing a very strong advertising and e-commerce revenue stream. (Quote by - Shane Leonard)
On the whole, it's a scary time in medical ethics because of consumer advertising. Leaving it up to the marketplace is not the optimal way to do medicine. (Quote by - David Magnus)
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)
Internet advertising will not replace traditional media, it will compliment them. (Quote by - Jef I. Richards)
Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically. (Quote by - Leo Bogart)
