Quotes About Advertising

He described his grand strategy as indirection. If General Motors hired Joe Schmo to sell cars, Joe Schmo would give an interview to Road & Track, telling them the specs of the Thunderbird, engine size in cubic inches, zero-to-sixty, and so on. Given the same job, Bernays would lobby Congress for higher speed limits, making it more fun to own a Thunderbird. Rather than fight for a single season of sales, he would make the world more friendly to his product.

There is the particular additional benefit of conspicuous generosity as a way of buying unfakeably authentic advertising.

Last year, the top ten pharmaceutical companies spent seventy-three billion dollars on advertising and less than twenty-nine billion on research. Tell me where their focus is.

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'

I've been watching Mad Men since day one.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

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.

Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

I don't got that kind of money man, commercials only pay so much (inaudible).

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.