Advertising Quotes - Page 30

• Lady Gaga is a pop prostitute, a satanic b - with her fascist and demonic secret signs! Her pop prostitution has more to do with bikini advertising than with warmth.

  Nina Hagen

  Secret, Satanic, Bikinis

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• The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.

  Lynda Resnick

  Support, Dollars, Magazines

  "Finding the Voice of Truth Amid the Noise of Old and New Media" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have formed an innovative kind of cartel—an arrangement I have termed America’s political duopoly. Both parties lie about the fact that they have each sold out to the financial sector and the wealthy. So far both have largely gotten away with the lie, helped in part by the enormous amount of money now spent on deceptive, manipulative political advertising.

  Charles Ferguson

  Clever, Lying, Party

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• In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Ideas, Inspire, Fuel

  Phil Dusenberry (2005). “Then We Set His Hair on Fire: Insights and Accidents from a Hall-of-fame Career in Advertising”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a dozen in business. Insight is much rarer -- and therefore more precious. In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Ideas, Differences, Inspire

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• Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

  Roy H. Williams

  Hate, Believe, Belief

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• Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

  Roy H. Williams

  Truth, Lying, People

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• Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.

  Roy H. Williams

  Impact, Today, Impossible

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• Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

  Roy H. Williams

  Business, School, Artist

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• If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.

  Herman E. Daly

  Order, Years, People

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• When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and can’t be sold on its merits. I’d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, I’m the kid who couldn’t play competitive games. I’d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.

  Yvon Chouinard

  War, Kids, Unique

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.119, Penguin

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• When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Running, Commitment, Shopping

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• Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.

  Peter Hain

  Party, Organization, People

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• Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Junk, Doe

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

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• By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Fire, Marketing

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• People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights.

  Jim Sterne

  Data, People, Marketing

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• I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.

  John Wanamaker

  Marketing, Dollars, Half

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• The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in by an advertising agency to supplement its work on behalf of a client. His work and that of the advertising agency do not conflict with or duplicate each other.

  Edward Bernays

  Men, Agency, Clients

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• The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result - to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

  Marvin E. Frankel

  Communication, Thinking, Achievement

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• In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him off for things he hadn't done or which hadn't even occurred to him to do. Being bossed and patronised are two sensations that most sophisticated adults would sooner do without and yet we are bossed and patronised, by the media, by politicians, by business, by advertising agencies and the public services, more now than at any other time in our history. Why should this be?

  Alexander Waugh

  Media, Two, America

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• Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

  P. T. Barnum

  Land, Increase, Genuine

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.45, Lulu.com

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• The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere.

  George Monbiot

  Mean, Media, Class

  "Civilisation ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.

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• Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures from year to year. In addition, the advertising business operates with optical signals as well as representations. Exhibitions and museums are indeed offspring of this visual hustle.

  Otto Neurath

  Men, Museums, Illustration

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• Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Running, Children, Garden

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.151, Penguin

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• The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones that you do not love. There are unpleasant angles to nearly every important job to be done in this world, but there must be an over all love for doing each, else precious time and effort are uselessly wasted. I shall never forget noting a sign above a construction job that read: "Builder of Difficult Foundations." That man must have loved that calling, else he would not have made a point of advertising the fact!

  George Matthew Adams

  Love, Jobs, Mean

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