Advertising Quotes - Page 9

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

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

People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

I was making commercials. That's how I learned the craft. That was the marketing part of it: directing commercial for TV. It wasn't the most common thing to become a filmmaker in Greece. I started by saying I was interested in marketing and have a proper job in advertising and commercials. Basically, I studied film to learn how to do marketing, and commercials. As I studied film I learned I'd be interested in making films instead of commercials.

Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second.

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising.

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

The internet is the most underutilized advertising medium that's out there.

I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.

The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.

You start losing a client the moment you get it.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'