Quotes About Advertising

I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'

I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

Our eyeball hours are scarce, indeed. That's why Google wants us to do as much as possible online, in range of their ads, and is willing to spend billions creating more reasons and ways for us to do so.

I like the Gap ad, the khaki one. I liked that.

Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state.

The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.

To be honest, I think it's a fair argument to ask actors not to endorse fairness products. We don't need to be fair in this country, and there's a whole lot of madness about being fair. Many advertisements are projected in a manner that if you aren't fair, you don't get married - and when you get fairer with the creams, you do!

I work on the assumption that in the crowded mass communication field today you have to get in and get out with your message as quickly and simply as possible. You must communicate the maximum with a single glance.

Advertising is a very fundamental need, so I don't think it's going to go away.

Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

Although I had a good job as an advertising manager for a shoe company in Boston, I really liked to fool around with comedy.

I'm in the industry, and I'll fast-forward through the ads most of the time. But I'll stop for the good ones.

In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.

They want a mission, a challenge! When we follow the type of advertising appeal used by Madison Avenue to sell toothpaste, when we use commercial techniques in our vocation literature, do not the hearts of the young spurn our distance from the Cross? Do not we recruit fruits of propaganda rather than fruits worthy of penance?

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

The infamous political ads like Carly Fiorina's 'Demon Sheep' and Christine O'Donnell's 'I Am Not a Witch' are so confusing, it's almost like they were paid for by Democrats.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.