Advertising Quotes - Page 40

• I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Trying, Want

  "Limbaugh: 'I am trying to earn a profit'" by Mike Madden, www.salon.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

  Barbara Johnson

  Philosophy, Faces, Your Face

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.108, Zondervan

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• The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

  Ilka Chase

  Insecure, Agency, Today

  Ilka Chase (1942). “Past Imperfect”

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• All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

  Pauline Kael

  Life Is, Propaganda, Courses

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• Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Products

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• Advertise, or go under.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Murder Must Advertise”, p.414, Open Road Media

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• Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Blow, Meals, Three

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Murder Must Advertise”, p.86, Open Road Media

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• In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Use, Firm

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.38, A&C Black

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• Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

  Storm Jameson

  Emotional, Expression, Sincerity

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

  Margaret Halsey

  Communication, Perfection, Tides

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Cynical, Marketing

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• When two kids came along, I couldnt see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.

  Peter Hambleton

  Kids, Years, Two

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• Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Sight, People, Wanting More

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• To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Passion, People, Want

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”

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• It's smart to be thrifty.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Smart, Thrifty, Thrift

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”

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• All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fall, Ideas, Energy

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• Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Fashion, Art, Construction Sites

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press

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• The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility.

  Frances M. Beal

  Country, Media, Males

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• There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Lying, War

  "Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.

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• "Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Nouns, Terrorism

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• Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, War, Grief

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• A lot of people will say, "what's Facebook's business model?" I always find that a kind of funny question. Our business model is out there, which is: we monetize largely through advertising and a little bit through the gift revenue, the virtual gifts we have on our site. I think those continue to be the most promising avenues going forward.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Source: techcrunch.com

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• Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

  Helen Caldicott

  Running, Beer, Bars

  "If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth". Book by Helen Caldicott, 2009.

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• Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

  Jennifer Stone

  Real, Television, Tvs

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.

  Emme

  Powerful, Two, People

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