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Advertising Quotes

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

– Mark Twain

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

– John Dos Passos

Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’

– Jef I. Richards

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret… to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

– Leo Burnett

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.

– Mark Zuckerberg

I didn’t think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

– Liev Schreiber

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people – and he won’t do very well in advertising.

– Leo Burnett

What is your Unique Selling Proposition? What makes you different than your competitors? Wrap your advertising message around that USP and communicate it in a clear and concise manner.

– Lynda Resnick

Every night I watch the nightly news. It’s funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.

– Michael Moore

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

– Judy Gold

CBS is the largest out-of-home advertising company in the U.S.

– Leslie Moonves

The thinner a newspaper or magazine is – due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars – the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.

– Lynda Resnick

Advertising is speech. It’s regulated because it’s often effective speech.

– Jef I. Richards

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.

– Kathryn Minshew

I’m not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do.

– Keith Ellison

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.

– Kit Williams

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

– John Lahr

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise… and cultivate the delightfully vague.

– John C. Crosby

When you invest in high-quality brands, it pays off with high-quality audiences and, ultimately, high-quality advertising rates.

– Jim Bankoff

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

– Marshall McLuhan

We do not invest in advertising… So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.

– Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

– Karen Hesse

More traffic means more advertising dollars.

– Jeff Zucker

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

– Karl Lagerfeld

I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.

– John O’Toole

Certainly, it seems true enough that there’s a good deal of irony in the world… I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there’s obviously a lot of deception.

– Kenneth Koch

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I’ll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

– Jef I. Richards

Yes, I sell people things they don’t need. I can’t, however, sell them something they don’t want. Even with advertising. Even if I were of a mind to.

– John O’Toole

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.

– James Randolph Adams

When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations – the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.

– Jerry Robinson

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