Advertising Agencies Quotes - Page 2

• I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

  Renny Harlin

  Agency, Advertising, Euthanasia

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

  Ilka Chase

  Insecure, Agency, Today

  Ilka Chase (1942). “Past Imperfect”

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• Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Abstract Painting, Advertising, Reader

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.

  Cynthia Voigt

  New York, School, College

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• Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.

  John Sculley

  Agency, Apples, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

  Karrie Webb

  Golfers, Wanted, Glad

  "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". Insurance Journal interview, amp.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.

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• Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

  David Ogilvy

  Might, March, Advertising

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• Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Marketing, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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

  Christopher Lasch

  Want, Advertising, Economics

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• When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

  Steve Lacy

  Research, Awful, Originality

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• We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

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• 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.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowing, Desire, Advertising

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.232, Vintage

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• It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Medicine, Suffering, Patents

  Three Men in a Boat (1889) ch. 1

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• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  Federico Fellini

  Government, Censorship, Advertising

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 

  I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar

  Sports, Latin, Bad Ass

  Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.

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• I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

  David Brinkley

  School, Very Good, Advertisements

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• News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

  Christopher Lasch

  News, Journalism, Advertising

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Freedom, People, Literature

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• I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

  Loretta Lynn

  Scotland, Mountain, England

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.30, Vintage

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• I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

  Bridget Hall

  Rocks, Band, Shirts

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• Advertising agencies come to you and they are great fans, they are great creative people themselves, but they ask you to do something, and you say, "Well, we will, we'll create something together." And it is work. It's like you're doing something and they're saying, "Change this" and "Change that." It's not hard, horrible work, but creatively it's not just freedom.

  Wayne Coyne

  Agency, People, Creative

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• Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

  Hannah Arendt

  Plato, Believe, Teaching

  Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn (2006). “Between Past and Future”, p.30, Penguin

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• I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• The traditional model for a company like Coca-Cola is to hire one big advertising agency and essentially outsource all of its creativity in that area. But Coca-Cola does not do it that way. It knows how to manage creative people and creative teams and it has been quite adept at building a network that includes the Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood, which is a talent agency.

  John Kao

  Team, Creativity, Artist

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1,1996.

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• So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Clubs, Way, Advertising

  "Dennis Bergkamp" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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