A Quotes
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“Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.”
“Advertising is 'an evil service'.”
“Advertising is 48% distraction; 4% information; and 48% manipulation.”
“Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.”
“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.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.”
Source: Retail Advertising: Complete
“Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.”
“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.”
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation”
“Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product”
“Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.”
“Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.”
“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”
Source: Culture Is Our Business
“Advertising is an invisible force that is driving your brand forward even if you can’t see but remember it’s working.”
Source: The Art of Running a Successful Wedding Services Business: The Missing Puzzle Piece You’re Looking For
“Advertising is brilliant. It's an industry that spends billions and billions of dollars to get you to react the way it wants you to react.”
“Advertising is fundamental to the accessibility, affordability and dynamism of the internet, helping to pay for much of the content and services we all enjoy and use for free.”
“Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.”
“Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist's drill.”
“Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says.”
“Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.”
“Advertising is legalized lying.”
“Advertising is like a stock market for your business investment.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.”
Source: The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money
“Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.”
“Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness.”
Source: Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society
“Advertising is much like war, minus the venom”
Source: Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter
“Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.”
“Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store... Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm... Nike."”
“Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal”
“Advertising is often the price we pay for not paying, or for not having paid, for the product.”
“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.”
“Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.”
“Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.”
“Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.”
Source: Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter
“Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.”
“Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.”
“Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.”
Source: How the World Works
“Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.”
“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”
“Advertising is the art of persuasion.”
“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.”
“Advertising is the best insurance that you can take out on your business. You can buy fire insurance on your stock of goods, but no company will issue a policy covering your business, the good will as they sometimes call it. You must insure yourself, and the best way to do it is by advertising. Good advertising kept up for a number of years gives you something that no fire can take away.”
Source: Retail Advertising: Complete
“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.”
“Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.”
“Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.”
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”
“Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy.”
“Advertising is the life of trade.”
“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana
“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana