Advertising Quotes - Page 11

• I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Fun, Golf, Clothes

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Fun, Golf

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• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

  Anton Chekhov

  Knowledge, Technology, Practice

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• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

  Samuel Johnson

  Business, Magnificence, Advertisements

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.159

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• On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

  David Ogilvy

  Average, People, Body

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• The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Caves

  "Culture Is Our Business". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1970.

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• Advertising is the life of trade.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Trade

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• There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Art, Tape, Manipulation

  Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.405, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.

  Stephen Covey

  Dna, Mouths, Social

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.

  David Ogilvy

  Beach, Humorous, Successful

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

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• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Gideon Planish". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1943.

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• Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Principles, Noise, Way

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• Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

  Akio Morita

  Promotion, Products

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 158), 1986.

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• Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.

  Jeff Goodby

  Medicine, Should, Candy

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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 philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

  William Feather

  Wise, Witty, Philosophy

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

  Raymond Chandler

  Country, Mind, Way

  1951 Letter to Carl Barndt, 15 Nov.

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• Most agencies run scared, most of the time. . . .Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising. . . . If I were aclient, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to the extent of giving them long-term contracts.

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Agency, Long

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• Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

  Richard Avedon

  High Heels, Legs, Department

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• A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

  Leo Burnett

  Ideas, Important, Today

  "Street-Smart Advertising: How to Win the Battle of the Buzz" by Margo Berman, (p. 95), 2006.

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• Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Economy, Century

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Real, People, Evil

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• Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

  David Ogilvy

  Writing, Men, Agency

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

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• As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

  George Orwell

  Christian, Political, Socialism

  The Road toWigan Pier ch. 11 (1937)

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