Advertising Quotes - Page 26

• The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure. I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck.

  Dick Armey

  Nice, Past, Air

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• I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.

  Rene Magritte

  Beautiful, Art, Boys

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• The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that.

  Don Hewitt

  Two, People, Want

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• Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.

  James Webb Young

  Men, Two, Creative

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• The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century-sex and paranoia.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Sex, Moving

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• Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says.

  Kenneth Roman

  Thinking, Consumers, Judged

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• The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Community, Church

  Timothy Keller (2017). “Ministries of Mercy: Learning To Care Like Jesus”, p.185, SPCK

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• The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself. Selection, order, the lettering you used for the track list, how much technical detail you went into, whether or not you added artwork or offered only artwork and no track list at all, these choices were as codified as a Victorian bouquet.

  Lavinia Greenlaw

  Order, Track, Choices

  Lavinia Greenlaw (2015). “The Importance of Music to Girls”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

  Vikas Swarup

  Alcohol, Might, Whiskey

  Vikas Swarup (2008). “Q & A: A Novel”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Life, Imagination, Resurrection

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• Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Pay, Social Media

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• People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Holy Grail, Referrals

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• The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

  Gus Van Sant

  Romantic, Drama, Dark

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• The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.

  Jay Abraham

  Marketing, Needs, Facts

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2011

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• Free publicity and word of mouth is probably the best and cheapest form of advertising. Learn to use it to your advantage.

  Richard Branson

  Survival, Use, Mouths

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• A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

  Edward Bernays

  Order, Waiting, Demand

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it will in addition be a competition of propaganda.

  Edward Bernays

  Believe, Competition, Association

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.

  Edward Bernays

  Mind, Guarantees, May

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• The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses. To advertise on a scale which will reach fifty million persons is expensive. To reach and persuade the group leaders who dictate the public's thoughts and actions is likewise expensive.

  Edward Bernays

  Government, Hands, Leader

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are really part of a very big advertising program, and the fact that they make so much money is because the markets have dictated that they get that money, and the fact that they endorse our products allows us to sell more products and create more jobs.

  Phil Knight

  Money, Jobs, Woods

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• We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Epidemics, Years

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• We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.

  James Packer

  Children, Watches, World

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• You can say on one hand the market is crazy but it's not 1999. People have had their medicine from overexuberance. I find it really interesting that those two businesses, Yahoo! and Google, which are just online advertising businesses, are valued at more than the media behemoths in America.

  James Packer

  Crazy, Media, Hands

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• I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Believe, Next Day

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