Quotes with advertising

  • Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.
  • 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.
  • I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
  • The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
  • Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
  • Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
  • Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
  • I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
  • I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
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  • Stephen Leacock Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • S. Leacock Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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  • George Santayana Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • George F. Will As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Pauline Kael In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
    Pauline Kael
    American film critic (0 - 2001)
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  • Louis Kronenberger 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
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • C. P. Snow Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
    Speaking in a debate broadcast by the BBC in 1936
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Sinclair Lewis Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • H.G. Wells Advertising is legalized lying.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Barton Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Calvin Coolidge 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
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bryce Courtenay 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
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bob Dylan Advertising signs that con you into thinking you are the one
    That can do what's never been done,
    That can win what's never been won
    Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around you
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay 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
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Roland Barthes All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Fred A. Allen An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bruce Barton 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
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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