Advertising Agencies Quotes - Page 6

• I cured with the power that came through me.

  Black Elk

  Power, Native American Dream

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

  Jay Chiat

  Advertising, Frank, Persons

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 01, 1994.

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• Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

  Michael Schudson

  Ignorance, Agency, Criticism

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.45, Routledge

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• Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

  Daniel Starch

  Mean, Agency, Competition

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• She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Moving, Agency

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

  Charles Edwards

  Numbers, Facts, Chance

  "Why Short Advertising Copy Does NOT Sell More" by Ira Kalb, www.businessinsider.com. May 28, 2013.

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• If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

  Michael Schudson

  Silly, People, Culture

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.242, Routledge

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• What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

  Merton Miller

  Money, Saving Money

  "Investment Gurus: A Road Map to Wealth from the World's Best Money Managers" by Peter J. Tanous, (p. 267), 1999.

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• In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

  Terry Gilliam

  Simple, Office, Frustrated

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• Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

  Michael Schudson

  Trends, Advertising, Consumers

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.207, Routledge

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• In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him off for things he hadn't done or which hadn't even occurred to him to do. Being bossed and patronised are two sensations that most sophisticated adults would sooner do without and yet we are bossed and patronised, by the media, by politicians, by business, by advertising agencies and the public services, more now than at any other time in our history. Why should this be?

  Alexander Waugh

  Media, Two, America

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• With my background, I came out of the theater.

  Joe Morton

  Theater, Backgrounds

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• I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

  Piper Perabo

  New York, Years, Trying

  "Showbiz Today Star of Tomorrow Piper Perabo". Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Promise, Speech, Covenant

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• A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Done, Firsts, Advertising

  "I don't want to be a dictator or to be adored" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2004.

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• [M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

  James Dyson

  Creativity, Science, Agency

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• As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Numbers, Views, Political

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• I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

  Kate Greenaway

  Hate, Drawing, Long

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