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Quotes About Advertising

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
~ Stuart Chase
Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
~ David Ogilvy
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
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
We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.
~ Will Keith Kellogg
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
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 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
I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
~ Jerry Della Femina
Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
~ William Bernbach
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
~ Gore Vidal
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.
~ William Bernbach
When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.
~ Barbara Corcoran
Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.
~ Leo Bogart
Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.
~ William Wrigley, Jr.
We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.
~ Jim Allchin
I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.
~ Billy Mays
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.
~ Milan Kundera
Advertising is fundamental to the accessibility, affordability and dynamism of the internet, helping to pay for much of the content and services we all enjoy and use for free.
~ Nick Stringer
Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.
~ Jaron Lanier
Well, you know, I am in the business and I like to promote myself.
~ Klaus Nomi
The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.
~ Kurt Vonnegut