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
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. — David Ogilvy
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. — Stuart Chase
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. — Leo Burnett
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. — Samuel Johnson
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
Everyone can benefit from seeing smart marketing. — Lewis Howes
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it. — David Ogilvy
Every ad is an investment in the long-term image of a brand. — David Ogilvy
The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper. — Thomas Jefferson
We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake. — Meg Whitman
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. — William Bernbach
Good Advertising Image Quotes
Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised. — Norm MacDonald
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Great Advertising Quotes
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography. — Herb Lubalin
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
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle. — Jim Stengel
You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different. — Rosser Reeves
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
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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
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
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
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
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
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 is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. — Will Rogers
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
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
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
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
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
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
Advertising Business Quotes
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
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
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
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
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
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
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
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
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
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
[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
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 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
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
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
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. — Fred A. Allen
To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?" — 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
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
Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk. — James Webb Young
Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it. — Leo Burnett
Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens. — Lester Beall
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad. — Leo Burnett
I know how good I am at passing out leaflets, and the answer is mediocre. — Sam Bankman-Fried
A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'. — Leo Burnett
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. — Sinclair Lewis
Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash. — Leo Burnett
Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility. — Leo Burnett
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising. — Leo Burnett
Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment. — Christopher Lasch
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
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
Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency. — David Ogilvy
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
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
If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level. — Jean Baudrillard
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. — David Whyte
There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising. — Giorgio Armani
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. — Leo Burnett
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
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. — Kenneth Koch
A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization. — James Cash Penney
Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab. — Tony Blackburn
There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers. — Jim C. Walton
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. — William Bernbach
Making the logo twice the size is often a good thing to do, because most advertisements are deficient in brand identification. Showing the clients' faces is also a better stratagem than it may sound, because the public is more interested in personalities than in corporations. Some clients can be projected as human symbols of their own products. — David Ogilvy
Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate. — Claude C. Hopkins
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
Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor. — Douglas Rushkoff
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt. — Joseph Addison
That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a dozen in business. Insight is much rarer -- and therefore more precious. 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
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