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Quotes About Advertising

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales
~ Paul Cookson
I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
~ Alice Sebold
Pay a fortune for an LCD TV, all very well, but it doesen't improve the quality of the shite they make you watch.
~ Allan Guthrie
The electric network selling itself: The medium is the message
~ Allen Ginsberg
who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue amid blasts of leaden verse & the tanked-up clatter of the iron regiments of fashion &the nitroglycerine shrieks of the fairies of advertising & the mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors, or were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality
~ Allen Ginsberg
Your brand is owned by your customers and anyone else who has an impression of your company. Your brand resides in the minds of your customers, not in your newspaper ads.
~ Joe Calloway
current passion for all things "natural," there is a good chance for market success. After all, effective promotion often trumps evidence.
~ Joe Dr Schwarcz
One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.
~ Joe Hill
I'm the poster boy for Propecia. It's amazing.
~ Joe Lando
When they talk among themselves, advertising people have been admitting since the 1920s that their job is to make people feel inadequate—and then offer their product as the solution to the sense of inadequacy they have created.
~ Johann Hari
The truth is creepier. It's not that they are listening and then they can do targeted ad serving. It's that their model of you is so accurate that it's making predictions about you that you think are magic.
~ Johann Hari
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
~ Bruce Barton
Life's a pitch, and then you buy.
~ Billy Mays
My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.
~ Casey Kasem
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
~ Dick Wolf
take it from me kiddobelieve memy country, 'tis ofyou, land of the CluettShirt Boston Garter and SpearmintGirl With The Wrigley Eyes (of youland of the Arrow Ideand Earl &WilsonCollars) of you ising: land of Abraham Lincoln and LydiaE. Pinkham,land above all of Just Add Hot Water AndServe—from every B.V.D.let freedom ringamen.
~ e. e. cummings
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
~ E.W. Howe
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
~ Edgar A. Shoaff
The Church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
~ Edward Abbey
A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.
~ Edward Bernays
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.
~ Anonymous
At Paul Masson, we will sell no wine before its time.
~ Anonymous
Persil washes whiter–and it shows.
~ Anonymous