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Quotes About Advertising

Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.
~ Matthew McGrory
Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.
~ Grant Bowler
Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word.
~ Ryan Holmes
I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.
~ Martine Syms
I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.
~ Ajith Kumar
Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts - like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self-driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects - while Google's advertising-oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the company's finances.
~ Adam Lashinsky
TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.
~ Dick Wolf
The reason people wear the things that they wear and accept the standards that they accept is because most athletes make a good portion of their money in advertising and doing campaigns afterwards.
~ Rain Dove
In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
~ Victor Koo
Working at the ad agency showed me just how possible things were from a production standpoint.
~ Lil Dicky
Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.
~ P. T. Barnum
To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
~ Earl Wilson
I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.
~ Oliviero Toscani
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
~ David Ogilvy
The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
~ Fred Allen
You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.
~ William Bernbach
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.
~ Winston Churchill
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
~ David Ogilvy
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
~ Carl Sandburg
The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.
~ Henryk Skolimowski
A local advertising periodical offered the following disclaimer: Just in case you find mistakes in this paper, please remember they were put there for a purpose. Some folks are always looking for mistakes, and we try to please everyone!
~ Terry Powell
Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.
~ Terry Semel
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
~ Theodor Adorno
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay