Top 1200 Advertising Agencies Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.

Nowadays it is the fashion to pretend that no single individual is ever responsible for a successful advertising campaign. This emphasis on "teamwork" is bunkum - a conspiracy of the mediocre majority.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.

We see Facebook as an advertising platform. We see Ello as a social network.

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the gaps get bigger and bigger because they're not constantly refreshed and tweaked.

One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

I think all members of Congress are very concerned about the fact that, while we want to see our law enforcement agencies have every means they can possibly have to combat terrorism, we've got to remember that we've had a Constitution in place for 225 years, and it has served us well.

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I'd be bored, and I would call him. He'd interview me.

Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.

Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.

In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

I plan to work with all my colleagues on education and labor issues and to ensure the security of our nation by providing agencies from FEMA's disaster recovery efforts to the Coast Guard protecting our nation with the tools they need to be successful.

Most national advertising is done without justification. It is merely presumed to pay. A little test might show a way to multiply returns

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a known flaw, simply because some intelligence agencies might get some data. That is not acceptable.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials.

Obama needs Facebook to help him get reelected. Facebook needs Obama to keep them out of trouble with Congress and countless government agencies.

Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

Over time, we look forward to introducing new advertising experiences and business experiences on Instagram.

Everyone should acknowledge a simple truth: The heart and soul of today's Internet economy is the collection of data, mainly for use in targeted advertising.

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

As an industry, YouTube and digital content have a huge upside to creation and virally reach fans, and there's a multi-billion dollar business of advertising attached to that.

For the longest time, computers have been associated with work. Mainframes were for the Army, government agencies, and then large companies. Workstations were for engineers and software programmers. PCs were initially for other white-collar jobs.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

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.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.