Quotes About Advertising

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it's actually more like raisins into a cookie - because nobody f-?-?-ing wants them there.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

The public could be made to want anything, if it were sold to them the right way.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm.

In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular brand of whatever it is they are pushing at you.

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.

it allows us to go to Walmart and more easily "ad-match

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Measurability—Can you identify the segment? Can you quantify its size? Accessibility—Can you reach the segment through advertising, sales force or distributors, transportation, or warehousing? Substantiality—Is the segment large enough to bother with? Is the segment shrinking, maturing, or growing?

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. —Susan B. Anthony

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.

Well, we all make mistakes, and I've made some; getting involved in a price-cutting campaign in Scotland when the biggest slump in advertising history was just around the corner was a mistake.

Big businesses have always had a lot more voice. They can afford advertising; they can afford marketing. But for small businesses, being able to quickly and cheaply connect to customers is a big deal.

Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.

When I got out of the Navy... all those hotshots, the guys that were really smart and attractive and all that, guess where they were going? They were going into advertising. That was the hot thing then.

We assumed the customers were smart and that they'll buy what they like, not what the ads tell them to buy.

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.

The obesity problem among children is very serious. When advertising budgets are big and business can corrupt the way we live so that it becomes the norm to snack all day - and if you are never hungry you are never going to feel like eating a healthy meal - that can't be right.