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Quotes About Advertising

notai che le armature di ferro di plaza Costituciòn avevno cambiato non so quale pubblicità di sigarette; il fatto mi dispiacque, perché compresi che l'incessante e vasto universo già si separava da lei e che quel mutamento era il primo di una serie infinita.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.
~ Abram Hoffer
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
~ Neil Strauss
The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
My rhetoric degree ended up being very helpful in advertising. I got an internship and then figured I will be a copywriter; that will be my path.
~ Alex Borstein
I think the most challenging aspect from my father's perspective was probably getting advertising. He really did pattern 'Ebony' after 'Look' and 'Life' magazines.
~ Linda Johnson Rice
I've done commercials that Sam Mendes directed. Paul Feig directed me in a commercial.
~ Kether Donohue
An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.
~ Gretchen Rubin
I'm not a huge spender. Sometimes when you pay a lot, you're paying for the company's advertising. It feels ridiculous to pay for a name.
~ Evelyne Brochu
Unless there is branding, players will not get adequate payment. Why do we want matches to be televised? Why do we want people to turn up for our matches? That's how you will generate revenue.
~ Mithali Raj
People who weren't watching basketball were still fans of Lil Penny.
~ Penny Hardaway
People say we live in an age of information overload. Right? I don't know about that, but I just know that I get too many marketing emails.
~ James Veitch
I starred in Dr. Pepper commercials and Buick ads.
~ Joe Piscopo
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
~ Fred Allen
Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.
~ David Ogilvy
I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
~ Paul Muldoon
The impetus for 'Power' was me writing about my dad, who was an advertising executive and very interested in image. He thought that perception was reality and what people thought of you was what was real about you.
~ Courtney A. Kemp
As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.
~ Marc Maron
Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
~ Seth Godin
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
~ Pope John Paul (II)
When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose.
~ Printers' Ink
Good things sell themselves; those that are bad have to be advertised.
~ Proverb
The dominant advertising advantage of Clinton, with spending of 10 to 1 over Trump, reinforced the perception that she was trying to buy, rather than earn, votes.
~ Richard Edelman
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
~ Lauren Bacall