Advertising Quotes

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

Advertising is the life of trade.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

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.

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

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

Advertising is legalized lying.

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

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.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

More traffic means more advertising dollars.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

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.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.