Advertising Industry Quotes

• I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again.

  Jennifer Beals

  Thinking, Order, Doe

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• What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Insightful, Marketing

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• The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

  William Bernbach

  Powerful, Marketing, Elements

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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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• The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

  David Ogilvy

  Creativity, Humor, Thinking

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• The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

  David Ogilvy

  Marketing, Advertising, Economy

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

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• If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans.

  Charley Reese

  Country, Party, Organization

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• What is the problem with the advertising industry is they're still, for me, what I call in Africa is the colonial mind of white men, because the black person or the other colour is out of the line. They're not good for this sort of purpose.

  Berhan Ahmed

  Men, White Man, Black

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The world keeps moving, the world keeps turning, and people get older, and young people become older and more important and cooler and interesting, and actually staying the same becomes a liability, especially in the advertising industry.

  Jon Hamm

  Moving, People, Interesting

  "‘Mad Men’ star Jon Hamm looks back: ‘It was a long, strange trip’". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 31, 2015.

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• The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Taken, Tools

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• The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result - to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

  Marvin E. Frankel

  Communication, Thinking, Achievement

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• The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.

  Simon Sinek

  Hate, People, Way

  "I Hate You: A Tale About Advertising" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2010.

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• I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Google, Fundamentals

  "Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More". Interview with Michael Arrington, techcrunch.com. August 31, 2009.

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• Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.

  Benjamin Barber

  Attitude, Tea, Dollars

  Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books

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• We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Order, Shoes

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

  Marc Edwards

  Humorous, People, Mad

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• Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.

  Robert Thurman

  Military, Creativity, Independent

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