Advertising Quotes - Page 10

• The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Saving Money, He Man

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• It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Money, Nice

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 09, 2012

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• The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

  Leo Burnett

  Educational, Organization, Marketing

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• We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Funny, Music, Dream

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

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• Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Business, Social Unrest, Done

  "Ann Coulter, the pin-up model" by Elana Schor, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2008.

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• Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

  Will Rogers

  Advertisement Negative, Improving, Products

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

  Will Rogers

  Paper, Forty, Ads

  "The Illiterate Digest".

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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, Advertising Business, Faster

  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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• Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of

  Michael Schudson

  Anxiety, Overcoming, Great Advertising

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.6, Routledge

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• I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

  Aldous Huxley

  Business, Writing, Mean

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• The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

  Daniel Starch

  Wise, Witty, Marketing

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• Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

  James Adams

  Advertising Business, Earth, Reason Why

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• Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Men, Goal

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

  Jay Chiat

  Frank, Advertising Agencies, Persons

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

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• You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

  Joseph E. Levine

  Business, Stupid, People

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• Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.

  Leo Burnett

  Creative, Marketing, Use

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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, Advertising Business

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

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• Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

  William Bernbach

  Funny Inspirational, Business, Media

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• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gossip, Sublime, Promise

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?

  Rosser Reeves

  Moving, Writing, Curves

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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, Advertising Business, Want

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• There is more than one way to burn a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Way, Censorship

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• There's more than one way to be a girl

  Lauren Faust

  Girl, Censorship In Books, Censoring Books

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• Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

  William Bernbach

  Jobs, Design, Facts

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• Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

  Herb Pomeroy

  Music, Fun, Clothes

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