Advertising Quotes - Page 29

• News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

  Katharine Graham

  Freedom, News, Want

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• Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

  Ellen Lupton

  Voice, Space, Diversity

  Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museum (1996). “Mixing Messages”, p.13, Princeton Architectural Press

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• It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

  Andy Clark

  Art, Inspiration, Design

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• I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff

  Jon Hamm

  Fans, Jingles, Television

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• It doesn't matter how many people you offend, as long as you're getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising.

  Phil Knight

  Meaningful, Knights, Long

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• Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Differences, People, Knows

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• Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Mutation, Language

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.61, Univ of California Press

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• Television, I would say,
  isn't an advertising medium.
  It's a selling medium.

  William S. Paley

  Television, Selling, Mediums

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• That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

  Rory Bremner

  Media, Ideas, Directors

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• But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Directors, Complaining

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• The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.

  Philip Kotler

  Done, Satisfied Customers, Satisfied

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• Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.

  Adam Yauch

  Names, May, Events

  "Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.

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• The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.

  Brian Solis

  Marketing, Remember, Function

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• The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning.

  Raymond Rubicam

  Purpose, Function, Sells

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• The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

  Kit Williams

  Religion, Ancient, Contemporary Society

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• People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.

  Cindy Gallop

  Hate, People, Particular

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• We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.

  Cindy Gallop

  Moving

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• You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.

  David Neeleman

  What Matters, Dollars, Contact

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• Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Agents, Way

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

  Wayne LaPierre

  School, Gun, Law

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.

  I. F. Stone

  Liberty, News, Dozen

  I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.7, PublicAffairs

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• The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even know where the hurt comes from, and in all pictures now the famous people have already begun to look lost and lonely.

  Robert Montgomery

  Lonely, Hurt, People

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• There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Google, Rivalry, Traditional

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• Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Internet, Worst

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• Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Thinking, Doe, Audience

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