Advertising Quotes

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.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

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.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

CBS is the largest out-of-home advertising company in the U.S.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

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.

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.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

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'.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

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.

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