Advertisements Quotes

• Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

  Mark Twain

  Fake People, Truth, Inspirational Life

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• Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Lying, Writing

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• The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

  Charles Edwards

  Numbers, Facts, Chance

  "Why Short Advertising Copy Does NOT Sell More" by Ira Kalb, www.businessinsider.com. May 28, 2013.

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• There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Needs, Looks

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

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• Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

  J. B. Priestley

  Birthday, Perfect, Age

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• Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

  William Bernbach

  Running, Business, Numbers

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• Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Educational, Satisfaction

  "$Ell Your Little Heart Out!". Book by Alan L. Alford, p. 71, October 1, 2012.

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• Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

  David Ogilvy

  Writing, Men, Agency

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

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• As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Mother, Mean

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• Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

  Leo Bogart

  Business, May, Advertising

  LEO BOGART (1967). “STRATEGY IN ADVERTISING”

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• Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Marketing, Advertising

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

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• It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Medicine, Suffering, Patents

  Three Men in a Boat (1889) ch. 1

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• Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

  Joseph Addison

  Running, Ambition, Mean

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.400

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• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Witty, Business

  'The Idler' no. 40 (20 January 1759)

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• An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

  Donal Henahan

  Real, Artist, Next

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• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gossip, Sublime, Promise

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Interesting, Community, Advertising

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• I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Writing, Marketing, Ransom

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• A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Done, Firsts, Advertising

  "I don't want to be a dictator or to be adored" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2004.

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• The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Use, Advertising

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

  Kate Greenaway

  Hate, Drawing, Long

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• Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

  Stephen Bayley

  Artist, Boards, Condescending

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• We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Business, Desire, Advertising

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

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• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

  Samuel Johnson

  Business, Magnificence, Advertising

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.159

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