Quotes About Advertising

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.

A businessman who stops advertising to save money is like a foolish who stops a clock to save time.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.

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

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.

But for high-tech products (and many others) promotions can't change reality.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

Advertising," he wrote, "now compares with such long-standing institutions as the school and the church in the magnitude of its social influence. It dominates the media, it has vast power in the shaping of popular standards and it is really one of the very limited groups of institutions which exercise social control.

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Because we're gonna get so interested in entertainment that we're not gonna want to do the work that generates the income that buys the products that pays for the advertising that disseminates the entertainment...Where the country could very well shut down and die, and it won't be anybody else doin' it to us, we will have done it to ourselves.

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

For startups, SM is now crucial: it has never been cheaper and easier to reach one's customers. Entrepreneurs should thank God for Twitter, Facebook.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.