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Advertising Quotes

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

– John Wanamaker

Google’s thing is not advertising because it’s not a romanticizing operation. It doesn’t involve expression. It’s a link. What they’re doing is selling access.

– Jaron Lanier

Mahalo’s business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don’t see anything wrong with advertising-based search.

– Jason Calacanis

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It’s us looking at ourselves – and like all human endeavors it’s imperfect.

– Jaron Lanier

Advertising is – quite often – alive to our real needs. It’s just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.

– Alain de Botton

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

– Augusten Burroughs

I got my start in the ‘New York Times’ because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do. And I read him so religiously, I wanted to work for him before I died.

– Andrew Ross Sorkin

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story – tell a story in one minute.

– Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

– Alexander Hamilton

We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.

– James Gleick

Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It’s journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd – the ‘crowd’ being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.

– Bill Kurtis

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just… ugh, you know?

– Alan Ball

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

– Ann Macbeth

I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential loss of market share in the mobile space led them to the Android acquisition.

– Barry Ritholtz

Our records are commodities. We’re looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end.

– Ali Shaheed Muhammad

I work in both very strict conditions and very loose, more open-minded conditions in advertising, and Nike is by far the most open-minded of all.

– Casey Neistat

When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between ‘teenyboppers’ and ‘counterculture consumers.’

– Charles Duhigg

They wouldn’t play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, ‘Punk rock doesn’t sell advertising, it won’t make any money.’

– Billy Idol

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

– Calvin Coolidge

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

– Clare Boothe Luce

We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that’s bringing broadband Internet to the world or funding an entirely separate company to pursue solutions to disease and mortality. Amazon’s one of the few other companies that thinks as big as Google does.

– Brad Stone

Nobody’s profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

– Brit Hume

I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

– Carine Roitfeld

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

– Christopher Lasch

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

– Ben Nicholson

I think you will see a point where the traditional model of advertising on TV or advertising online will go, and advertisers will cover one programme, no matter what platform it’s being broadcast on. You’ll see the same ads whether you are watching it on your TV, your computer or your phone.

– Chad Hurley

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

– Arnold J. Toynbee

As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.

– Campbell Brown

I get invited to premieres, and I’ve been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, ‘Why am I doing free advertising for you?’

– Bat for Lashes

I’m always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

– Augusten Burroughs

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