All Quotes

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
‐‐ Leo Burnett

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

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the life of trade.
‐‐ Calvin Coolidge

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

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
‐‐ Yves Behar

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.
‐‐ James Randolph Adams

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
‐‐ George Orwell

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov

Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.
‐‐ Jef I. Richards

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
‐‐ Jef I. Richards

Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosing to spend a lot more time online.
‐‐ Susan Wojcicki

Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
‐‐ Fairfax Cone

Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
‐‐ Jan Koum

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
‐‐ Phillip Adams

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
‐‐ Calvin Coolidge

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.
‐‐ Morris Hite

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.
‐‐ Jay Chiat

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

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

Advertising revenue available for all programmers, all broadcasters is not enough to create quality programming, and subscription revenues are very, very minimal which come to all programmers.
‐‐ Subhash Chandra

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'
‐‐ Leo Burnett

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
‐‐ Bryce Courtenay

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

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

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.
‐‐ John Hughes

Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
‐‐ Bryce Courtenay

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
‐‐ Patricia Ireland

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
‐‐ Carolyn Wells

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
‐‐ George Chapman

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.
‐‐ Jena Malone

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
‐‐ Erica Jong

Advice? Look at your pay statements.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.
‐‐ Roy Haynes

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
‐‐ Rudy Rucker

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

Advice to persons about to marry - don't.
‐‐ Henry Mayhew

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
‐‐ Robin Cousins

Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan