Quotes About Advertising

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

My father did advertising photography.

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.

Once upon a time, drug companies promoted drugs to treat diseases. Now it is often the opposite. They promote diseases to fit their drugs.

We have an inglorious knack fo accumulating stuff....an economic model of mass production and planned obsolescence that continues to hold sway. Whether it's because fashions change or because products are manufactured to fail, we're primed to buy as often as possible. The psychology of advertising has optimized the selling of stuff to every demographic. Eighteen-month-old children have an average repertoire of two hundred brands they recognize before the first grade.

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial.

It is not "just beer," it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.

The real food is not being advertised.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer...Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview.