Advertising Quotes - Page 6

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  Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

  Leo Burnett

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking

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

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• What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Humility, Giving

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"

  David Ogilvy

  Dog, Humorous, Agency

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

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• Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Success, Fun

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• The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Life, America

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 18, 1954.

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• Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

  Ellen Willis

  Art, Mass Consumption, Corporate

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Essence, Democracy, Transcendentalism

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• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Money, Fear, Animal Intelligence

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press

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• Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Marketing, Buckets

  Attributed

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

  George Santayana

  Religion, Argument, Modern

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

  Thornton Wilder

  Suicide, Marketing, Different

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• In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.

  William Bernbach

  Suicide, Suicidal, Marketing

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

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• What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Organization, Important

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• A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

  Nicholas Johnson

  Moral, Skip, Viewers

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• We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

  Ben Nicholson

  Quality, Pushing, Clients

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

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Business, Desire, Advertisements

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

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• Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

  John Lahr

  Business, Crazy, People

  The Guardian, August 1989.

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• Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sadness, Feelings, Mind

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Set of Six”, p.103, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

  Bruce Barton

  Humorous, Light, World

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• There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

  David Ogilvy

  Humorous, Television Commercials, Presidential

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• That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Facts, Kind, Ads

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• There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They can tell you that people in an ad will get you greater readership. They can tell you that a sentence should be this short or that long. They can tell you that body copy should be broken up for easier reading. They can give you fact after fact after fact. They are the scientists of advertising. But there's one little rub. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

  William Bernbach

  Wise, Witty, Art

  Letter on May 15, 1947. "Letters of Note". Book by Shaun Usher. Volume 2: "An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience", p. 190, 2016.

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• NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.

  Rob Zombie

  Running, Mean, Kissing

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