Quotes About Marketing

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'

I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

I don't want to have my face on the cover of a Wheaties box. I wanna have my face on the cover of a Rice Krispies box. "Snap, Krackle, Mitch and Pop"!

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, '100%' means 'sugar-free.

I never saw anything funny in a car commercial - but that's OK. Whatever they wanted to do - it's their product and I'm the spokesperson, and I'm going to deliver.

People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.

The future of content marketing is in your hands.

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

I saw a notice that said Drink Canada Dry and I've just started.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

I wonder if fat drug dealers sell diet coke.

ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.

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.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.