Advertising Quotes

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

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.

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.

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.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

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.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

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.

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.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.