Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. — Leo Burnett
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
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
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. — Will Rogers
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. — Marshall McLuhan
Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless. — Adolph Ochs
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. — Fred A. Allen
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. — Sinclair Lewis
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
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. — William Bernbach
In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to. — Bruce Barton
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
The best advertising is done by satisfied customers. — Philip Kotler
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. — Mark Twain
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. — Laurence J. Peter
Advertising Business Image Quotes
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
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
Advertising is legalized lying.
[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
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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 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
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
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
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
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
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
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
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
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
Advertising Agency Quotes
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler
After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. — Akira Toriyama
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste. — Rocco DiSpirito
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
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
Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat the well enough so they don't want to.
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
Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places. — Charles Simic
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
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
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
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
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
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
You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact. — David Neeleman
Business Marketing Quotes
Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master. — Philip Kotler
Having even just one relationship with an online influencer can have a significant impact on your business. — Lewis Howes
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. — Anita Brookner
Our experience over the last 20 years taught us that stock prices in the short term don’t always reflect what is occurring in the underlying companies, sometimes for long and frustrating periods of time. But in the long term, the market ultimately reflects the true value of a business. — Francois Rochon
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast. — Larry Fink
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
A similar wisdom can be applied to market quotations. Once we understand that they can often be mirages, we can transcend them and come to see stocks simply as shares of businesses…which in the end is the one and only reality. — Francois Rochon
In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses. — John C. Bogle
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. — James C. Collins
Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion. — Andrew Tan
Great Advertising Quotes
Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories. — Theodore Levitt
Great marketing isn’t about having the largest audience; it’s about having the right audience. — Rand Fishkin
You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different. — Rosser Reeves
More people would learn from their mistakes if they were not so busy denying them.
When it comes to content and content marketing, you probably want to err on the side of making things super amazing, not MVP. — Rand Fishkin
Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling. — Madonna Ciccone
Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time. — Henry Ford
It's always the guy who gets the diarrhea on the commercial at an inconvenient moment. As if you've ever been in a situation: 'You know, this would be a great time to get the runs, you think? I mean the sun's out, we're on the ferris wheel - what are we waiting for? — Richard Jeni
Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising. — Howard Schultz
Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula. — William Bernbach
Advertisement Negative Quotes
When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising. — Tucker Carlson
Nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising. — David Ogilvy
Marketing a product with a low NPS is essentially saying to potential customers, ‘Hey, my product sucks, check it out.’ — Cliff Lerner
Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. — Herb Pomeroy
An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be. — Ludwig von Mises
Nobody has ever, ever, in the history of politics received the kind of negative advertising that I have. Record, record. By the way mostly false, I wouldn't say 100 percent but about 90 percent. Mostly false, vicious, horrible. — Donald Trump
Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position. — Jimmy Carter
The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements. — Bernie Sanders
The congresspersons who are co-sponsoring the bill are being beat up in their districts with negative advertising. We need to go to them and say we understand; we're here to help and on your side. — Charlie Norwood
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is. — Fairfax M. Cone
Entertainment Business Quotes
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself. — Max Keiser
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music. — Bobby Vinton
I want to become an entertainment, tech, and business mogul just in general. — Jake Paul
I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything. — Jake Paul
In business, one should never take anything for granted. Your fortune can change in five minutes. — Koos Bekker
Building a successful business is no longer about B2B or B2C. It’s about P2P, those people-to-people relationships. – Pat Flynn — Pat Flynn
The cards are stacked in your favor when you reinvest every penny in your business. — Vladimer Botsvadze
I love the restaurant business because it’s all about making people happy and bringing them together over good food. — Glen Bell
Everyday hit every wave, like I’m Hawaiian. I don’t surf the net, no I’ve never been on MySpace, too busy letting my voice vibrate, carving out my space in this world. — Jay-Z
You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it. — Otis Redding
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
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
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
Ultimately, the business that can spend the most to acquire a customer wins. — Russell Brunson
There's no such thing as bad publicity. — P. T. Barnum
Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills! — Perry Marshall
I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick. — George Lois
At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do. — Charles R. Schwab
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse. — Edward Bernays
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. — William Bernbach
The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament. — Steve Jobs
I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising. — Lee Clow
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level. — William Bernbach
If you have a business website; make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage...then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising. — Lynda Resnick
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time! — Jules Henry
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. — Leo Burnett
Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity. — Raymond Rubicam
Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client. — David Ogilvy
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. — Norman Mailer
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. — Les Brown
In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials. — Phil Dusenberry
Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life. — Avinash Kaushik
Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit. — George Carlin
Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels. — David Ogilvy
Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. — James R. Adams
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. — Unknown
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. — Ren Mulford Jr.
Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping. — Dana Delany
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster. — Jerry Della Femina
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion. — Aretha Franklin
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