Advertising Quotes - Page 24

• Legalize it, and I will advertise it.

  Peter Tosh

  Marijuana, Cannabis

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• We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.

  Larry Page

  Money, Believe, Technology

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.

  Colin McEnroe

  Dream, Wall, Exercise

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• No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern.

  Albert Houtum-Schindler

  Educational, Done, Addresses

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• One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

  Jim Rohn

  Business, Educational, Taken

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 12, 2015

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• I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does all the things that hurt particularly the poor in our society.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Encouragement, Hurt, Drinking

  "Bad rap forces Pepsi to drop Ludacris" by Claire Cozens, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2002.

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• Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

  Erich Fromm

  Tyrants, Political, Feelings

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Humorous, Believe, Rocks

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.187, Grove Press

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• Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Purpose, Trends

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Lying, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

  P. T. Barnum

  Humorous, Littles, Copywriting

  P. T. Barnum (2015). “The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.45, Booklassic

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• Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

  Noam Chomsky

  Pay, Privilege, Taxes

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.301, Soft Skull Press

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• [Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

  Elvis Costello

  Kids, Guitar, Two

  "Elvis Costello plays with words and praises" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2002.

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• Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.

  William Bernbach

  Like Love, Ideas, Analysis

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• Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.

  David Ogilvy

  Thinking, Emotion, Feels

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• Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.

  Bob Garfield

  Children, Animal, Cartoon

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• You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

  Seth Godin

  Technology, Media, Creating

  Seth Godin (2012). “Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can tell you. ... government practices deceptive advertising. And the merest glance at the federal budget is enough to convict the government of perjury, extortion, and fraud. ... in a nutshell: government should be against the law. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Law, Practice, Jail

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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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• Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

  Martin Gardner

  Real, Science, Self

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• The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Healthy, Purpose

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• It’s not the advertising - it’s the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don’t like it.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Dog, Looks, Care

  "Krauthammer: Obamacare like bad ‘dog food’" by Jeff Poor, dailycaller.com. March 19, 2012.

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• In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Selling, Refuse

  Gore Vidal (1988). “At home: essays, 1982-1988”, Random House Inc

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• Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.

  George Arthur French

  Fuel, Enterprise

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• Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

  Frank Farrington

  Men, He Man, Neglect

  Frank Farrington (1910). “Retail Advertising: Complete”

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