Advertising Quotes - Page 9

• Advertising is legalized lying.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Truth, Humorous

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

  John Wanamaker

  Money, Business, Marketing

  "Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, Chapter 3, 1963.

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• I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

  Leo Burnett

  Business, Believe, People

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Development, Demand, Mass

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• In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Business, Independent

  Newsweek, December 24, 1973.

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

  David Ogilvy

  Art, Information, Entertainment

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• Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

  David Ogilvy

  Editors, Majority, Doe

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

  David Ogilvy

  Baby, Campaigns, World

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

  David Ogilvy

  Leadership, Business, Vocabulary

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

  Bruce Barton

  Business, Humor, People

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• Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

  William Bernbach

  Art, Business, Persuasion

  "Letters of Note: Volume 2: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience". Book by Shaun Usher (p.190), 2016.

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

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Literature, Century, Force

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

  Christopher Lasch

  Reality, Media, Logic

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.519, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Ninety Nine, Percent

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• 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

  Technology, Thinking, Economy

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

  Christopher Lasch

  News, Journalism, Propaganda

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity

  Julie Christie

  Integrity, Nice, Thinking

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• People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves

  Dale Carnegie

  People, Copywriting, Not Interested

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• Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Dream, People, Want

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• The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

  Enoch Powell

  Business, Enemy, Proclaiming

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• What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Truth, Differences, Marketing

  Discovery (published 1964).

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• You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

  Herb Lubalin

  Creativity, Greatness, Design

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• For after all, a poster does more than simply
  supply information on the goods it advertises;
  it also reveals a society’s state of mind

  Armin Hofmann

  Mind, Society, Doe

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