Advertising Quotes - page 12

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising. (Tom Bodett)
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. View quote
William Feather
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. View quote
Ivan Illich
Google never did any advertising. They're like dealers; they sell the stuff, but they know better than to use it themselves. View quote
Paul Graham
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. View quote
Leon Kass
Advertising works. Brand names are better known if advertised with sexy or alluring pictures, and better-known brands sell better. Why does it work? Because the price the consumer would have to pay in ignoring the subliminal message is just to high. Better to be fooled into buying the second best ice-cream than go to all the bother of educating yourself into the ability to resist salesmen. View quote
Matt Ridley
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. View quote
Fred Allen
The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. View quote
Fred Allen
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. View quote
Pope John Paul II
Thus ideas like subliminal advertising today rarely works and or even exists. (Martin Lindstrom)
The consumer has become increasingly sophisticated in the way they obtain and digest information - of the simple reason that they've become comfortable about building and maintaining their own personal brands. This has thickened their "filter" and as a result made them become more critical towards advertising and communication. View quote
Martin Lindstrom
Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called "making love". Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said "sex is good." View quote
Matt Groening
Where do babies come from Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called making love. Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said sex is good. All available evidence, however, points to the contrary. View quote
Matt Groening
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. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful. View quote
Simon Sinek
We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
It doesn't matter how many people you offend, as long as you're getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising. View quote
Phil Knight
Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy. View quote
Ernie J Zelinski
They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.' View quote
Billy Idol
There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated. You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested. (Brandon Mull)
Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy. View quote
Ice Cube
My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money. View quote
Gaby Hoffmann
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. View quote
Gus Van Sant
We run all kinds of ads, as long as they are clearly marked as advertising when there's ever a question. I think advertising is advertising. If it's 100 percent clear what it is, then, with certain exceptions, I can live with that. View quote
David Remnick