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Quotes About Advertising

Great marketing cannot sell a pedestrian product very well.
~ John Sculley
They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'
~ Billy Idol
The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.
~ Dick Morris
A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.
~ Robert Kane Pappas
When you have a TV show or when you are running a magazine, you have to remember that your audience isn't rich. They're not made of money.
~ Greg Gutfeld
You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.
~ Harry Shearer
Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
~ Hugo Weaving
I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.
~ Richard Simmons
If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.
~ Seth Godin
Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
~ Jef I. Richards
Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
~ Jerry Della Femina
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.
~ Sloane Crosley
Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.
~ John Carpenter
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.
~ Adam Yauch
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.
~ Helen Reddy
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
~ Alex Winter
Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
~ Gordon Smith
This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.
~ Hilary Rosen
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
~ Meg Rosoff
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.
~ Louis Kronenberger
Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.
~ Helen Caldicott
Politics is gut; commercials are gut.
~ Frank Luntz