Advertising Quotes

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.

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.

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

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

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Advertising is legalized lying.

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

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.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

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

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

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

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

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.

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.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising.