Advertising Business Quotes

• Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

  Henry Ford

  Insightful, Marketing, Watches

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• Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

  William Bernbach

  Running, Business, Numbers

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Fun, Creativity

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Success, Fun

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• We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

  Leo Burnett

  Educational, Want, Hell

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• I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

  Leo Burnett

  Business, Believe, People

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Singing, Riding, Littles

  "The Mechanical Bride". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1951.

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• An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

  William Bernbach

  Motivational, Positive, Creativity

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• There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Humorous, Faster, Deals

  Jerry Della Femina (2010). “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Creativity, Artist

  "Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

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• In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.

  William Bernbach

  Suicide, Suicidal, Marketing

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• Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

  Kevin Roberts

  Business, Passion, Agency

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• All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

  William Bernbach

  Business, Media, Use

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• Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

  William Bernbach

  Creativity, Businessman, Practicals

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• There's no such thing as bad publicity.

  P. T. Barnum

  Publicity, Public Relations, Obituary

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• Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

  William Bernbach

  Memorable, Artist, Design

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• Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

  David Ogilvy

  Evil, Marketing, Motivational Business

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• Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

  Northrop Frye

  Business, Mixtures, Advertising

  Northrop Frye (1976). “The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Witty, Business

  'The Idler' no. 40 (20 January 1759)

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• There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

  Brendan Behan

  Publicity, Public Relations, Obituary

  In Dominic Behan My Brother Brendan (1965) p. 158

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• What helps people, helps business.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Fun, Writing

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