Advertising Quotes - Page 15

• Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.

  Kim Thayil

  Fashion, Rocks, Marketing

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• We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.

  James Rosenquist

  Communication, Impact, Gusto

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• Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.

  Dave Winer

  Information, Disappear

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• Real content marketing isn’t repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.

  Seth Godin

  Real, Talking, Marketing

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• We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Google, Incentives, Want

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• Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship.

  Lester Wunderman

  Dialogue, Invitations

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• It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

  Patrick Collison

  Advertising Business, Wells, Devices

  "How Stripe Plans To Make Mobile Pay" by Owen Thomas, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2013.

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• The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.

  Henry James

  Illustration, Media, Mind

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• Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

  Joseph Addison

  Running, Ambition, Mean

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.400

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• That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.

  Barry McGee

  Cities, Competition, Healthy

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• The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.

  George Will

  People, Rooms, Messages

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Court, Democratic, Jester

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• Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  People, Effort, Needs

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Reprints of Addresses”

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• Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

  John Berger

  Messages, Language, Proposal

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• The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Untruthfulness, Repetition

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• Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

  J. B. Priestley

  Race, Needs, Pressure

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• To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and under-age children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Children, Light, Law

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• Digital advertising is now larger than TV.

  Henry Blodget

  Digital, Tvs, Digital Media

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• Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Thinking, Novelists

  "Opinion: literary and commercial writers should lay down their arms" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

  Jan Karon

  Age, Clock, Eighteen

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• I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

  Jan Karon

  Color, Editors, Fiction

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• They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

  Billy Idol

  Hair, Rocks, Play

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

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• You start losing a client the moment you get it.

  Jay Chiat

  Clients, Losing, Moments

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• How big can we get before we get bad?

  Jay Chiat

  Bigs

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• My real talent was for losing clients.

  Jay Chiat

  Real, Clients, Losing

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