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Quotes About Marketing

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.
~ Dick Wolf
I believe if you've written a book, you have to stand up and say, 'Guys, buy the book.'
~ Ravi Subramanian
Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.
~ Tahl Raz
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
~ Dave Morris
Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.
~ Hedda Hopper
To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
~ Earl Wilson
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
I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.
~ Tom Ford
You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.
~ William Bernbach
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.
~ Winston Churchill
We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.
~ Fred Dibnah
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
~ Carl Sandburg
The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.
~ Henryk Skolimowski
Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches.
~ Terri Guillemets
After all, no one is comfortable being told that he or she is a sinner. In our marketing-oriented churches, making people comfortable and happy can easily become the primary thing.
~ Terry James
Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.
~ Terry Semel
Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.
~ Terry Semel
At the grocery store, kale, tomatoes and berries won't have a single label touting their nutritional benefits," says Block, "but that's only because fresh produce doesn't have much of a marketing department.
~ The Editors of Men's Health
2003 case before the Supreme Court in which Nike claimed that it had the First Amendment right to lie in its corporate marketing, a variation on the First Amendment right of free speech. (Except in certain contract and law enforcement/court situations, it's perfectly legal for human persons to lie in the United States.
~ Thom Hartmann
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.
~ Dwyane Wade
For acting, classes are a necessity, but for modeling it's really just knowing who you are and knowing how to sell yourself.
~ Denise Bidot
Let's face it - negativity sells records.
~ Taboo