An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. — Fred A. Allen
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. — Leo Burnett
Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today. — Victor Papanek
After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. — Akira Toriyama
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. — Will Rogers
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. — Stuart Chase
Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash. — Aubrey Beardsley
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. — Robert W. Sarnoff
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. — William Bernbach
Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless. — Adolph Ochs
Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business. — Kevin Roberts
The best advertising is done by satisfied customers. — Philip Kotler
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. — Marshall McLuhan
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it. — David Ogilvy
Short Advertising Agency Quotes
Every ad is an investment in the long-term image of a brand. — David Ogilvy
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. — Samuel Johnson
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. — Mark Twain
We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake. — Meg Whitman
Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. — John Wanamaker
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. — David Ogilvy
Advertising Agency Image Quotes
Advertising is legalized lying.
Advertising Industry Quotes
Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses. — Wilson Bryan Key
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years. — David Ogilvy
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again. — Jennifer Beals
Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell.
[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries. — James Dyson
I've always had an interest in the fashion industry. Fashion advertising and lifestyle branding has always been intriguing and provocative to me. It's not just clothing or style that I had interest in, it was more the marketing side of things that I had intrigue in. — Ashley Purdy
The whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming it into the minds of gullible people who have no curiosity to find out why that is so. — Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.
Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be? — Marc Edwards
There are unlimited opportunities for display advertising. In fact, we're in the process of massive change in the display industry - how it's bought, how it's sold, and how it's targeted. — Susan Wojcicki
Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising. — George Meyer
The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking. — Ellen Goodman
Advertising Business Quotes
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. — Sayings
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. — Eduardo Galeano
Companies such as Google and Facebook rely on capturing as much data as possible to enhance their advertising targeting.
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times. — Fulton J. Sheen
Currently, e-commerce is the segment of our internet business which is growing the fastest and it will remain that way for the foreseeable future. — Koos Bekker
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. — Joseph E. Levine
Content marketing is educating people enough to do business with you. — Brian Clark
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference. — Aaron Sorkin
Social media opens the floodgates to business owners to maximize their success. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones. — Joanne Lipman
Advertising Quotes
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk. — Barack Obama
This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records. — Holly Johnson
Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them. — Huey Newton
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring — Seymour Papert
Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain. — Rick Warren
Legalize it, and I will advertise it. — Peter Tosh
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography. — Herb Lubalin
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. — Emile Zola
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. — Woodrow Wilson
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. — Jesse Owens
Advertising And Marketing Quotes
Don’t sell products or services. Instead, publish helpful information your audience is passionate about so they actually pay attention and start to trust you. — Brian Clark
The only difference between a salesperson and a marketer is the first person is annoying, and the second one is amazing. — Russell Brunson
I take a dim view of offline marketing… and digital marketing is the backbone of success for corporations. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Aggregating all supply and allowing that supply to compete for audiences is how all platforms gain their power. — Jeff Booth
Content marketing is not about expensive and elaborate campaigns. It’s about getting the basics right. — Brian Clark
Selling to people through social media is like going to a party, meeting somebody for the first time, and then saying, ‘Hey, do you want to buy this Tupperware?’ — Pat Flynn
If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle. — Jim Stengel
It goes without saying, marketing teams should take a step back, rethink their marketing strategies, and become as regular as clockwork across social media platforms. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Marketing isn’t about shortcuts; it’s about the slow, steady, and consistent effort. — Rand Fishkin
A winning marketing strategy requires a balance of practicality and storytelling. — Vladimer Botsvadze
The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people. — J. Edgar Hoover
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. — Jerry West
No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen. — John Dalton
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes
Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning. — Gina McCarthy
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo. — Harry S. Truman
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? — Curt Weldon
Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally. — Francis Galton
When the interests of the salesmen and promoters differ from those of the client, the client had better look out for himself. This is the well-known agency problem in economics, where the interest of the agents or managers don’t coincide with those of the principals, or owners. — Edward O. Thorp
Good Advertising Quotes
For after all, a poster does more than simply
supply information on the goods it advertises;
it also reveals a society’s state of mind — Armin Hofmann
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. — David Ogilvy
You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better. — Daniel Dennett
Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat. — Dizzy Dean
Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised. — Norm MacDonald
In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to. — Bruce Barton
Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart. — Ryan Deiss
Marketing is about telling good stories. Social media marketing is about getting your customers to tell them for you. — Ryan Deiss
Good perfume is known by its own scent rather than by the perfumer's advertisement. — Afghan Proverbs
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste. — Rocco DiSpirito
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. — Ivan Illich
I had a model for revenue that larger agencies couldn’t have replicated without scaling down immensely. — Paul Jarvis
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. — David Ogilvy
Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places. — Charles Simic
Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is what they get. Their only problem is to not lose the budget. I think its a shame because advertising is so boring and it can be so interesting. They should ask more artists to make interesting campaigns. — Oliviero Toscani
No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. — Claire LaZebnik
To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?" — David Ogilvy
At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on. — Vance Packard
So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that. — Maria Menounos
Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy. — Hartmut Esslinger
Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does. — Howard Schultz
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. — Fred Allen
Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself. — Wilson Bryan Key
I have noticed that agencies which are full of fun and ferment seem to create the best advertising. If you are not happy in advertising, for goodness sake find a job in which you would be happy. For as far as I know, we pass this way only once — David Ogilvy
I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man. — Oliviero Toscani
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising. — David Ogilvy
I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street. — Howard Finster
Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second. — Mark Jackson
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. — Leo Burnett
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. — David Ogilvy
Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress. — Daniel Starch
I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything. — Renny Harlin
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. — Robert Waterman McChesney
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. — William Bernbach
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. — Michael Schudson
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account. — David Ogilvy
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. — Nat King Cole
I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency — Leo Burnett
Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham. — John Lydon
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. — Lytton Strachey
I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score. — Rocco DiSpirito
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other. — William Adams
Jesus Christ didnt commit the gospel to an advertising agency; He commissioned disciples. And He didnt command them to put up signs and pass out tracts; He said that they would be His witnesses. — Joseph Bayly
Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work. — David Ogilvy
The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in by an advertising agency to supplement its work on behalf of a client. His work and that of the advertising agency do not conflict with or duplicate each other. — Edward Bernays
Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness. — Michael Schudson
Most agencies run scared, most of the time. . . .Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising. . . . If I were aclient, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to the extent of giving them long-term contracts. — David Ogilvy
Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And we down to Lubbock, Texas, usually and onto a ranch and we would pick cowboys who looked the part and photograph them under dramatic situations - rounding up wild horses or running through streams and then reaching in and taking a drag on a cigarette. — Haskell Wexler
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