Advertising Quotes

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

~ Marissa Mayer

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

~ Raymond Chandler

I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

~ Magnus Larsson

If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence.

~ Joseph Pulitzer

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

~ Kit Williams

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

~ Leo Burnett

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

~ Jason Calacanis

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

~ Nat King Cole

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

~ Ken Robinson

They're still advertising the added health-giving advantages of vitamins in your daily diet, although it has long since been shown that you'd be better off eating Smarties.

~ Terry Wogan

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

~ Brian Eno

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

~ William Bernbach

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.

~ Dave Obey

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

~ Tom Ford

In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd.

~ Justin Cartwright

I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.

~ Christopher Mcculloch

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

~ Jef I. Richards

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

~ Will Rogers

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.

~ George Lois

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

~ David Ogilvy

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

~ Dick Wolf

Sad to say, negative advertising really works.

~ Jerry Della Femina

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

~ Jay Chiat

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

~ Federico Fellini

OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.

~ Sam Yagan

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

~ John Wanamaker

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

~ Will Rogers

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

~ Will Rogers

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

~ Jamie Lee Curtis

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

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

~ David Ogilvy

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

~ David Ogilvy

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

~ John Lahr

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

~ David Ogilvy

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

~ Warren E. Burger

The future of advertising is the Internet.

~ Bill Gates