Advertising Quotes - page 2

We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling. (Paul Arden)
There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest. View quote
Paul Arden
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science. View quote
Claude C. Hopkins
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. View quote
Christopher Lasch
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half. View quote
John Wanamaker
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. View quote
Brit Hume
Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. View quote
Kenneth Koch
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. (Kit Williams)
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. View quote
Robert McChesney
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser. View quote
Roy H. Williams
Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising. View quote
Roy H. Williams
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. View quote
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke. View quote
Michel Houellebecq
"The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little." [taken from Adbusters magazine]. View quote
Banksy
I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling. View quote
Gore Vidal
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. (Marshall McLuhan)
Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving. View quote
David Ogilvy
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. View quote
David Ogilvy
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest. View quote
David Ogilvy
Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski