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“We see Facebook as an advertising platform. We see Ello as a social network.”

Social Advertising Platforms Social Network

Author:Paul Budnitz

“A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.”

Self Advertising

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“It's false advertising to call Mrs. Obama the First Lady. First Woman, maybe, but certainly not a lady. Ann Romney is an actual lady.”

Firsts Advertising Romney First Lady

Author:Mitt Romney

“Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.”

Should Eye Tears Advertising Nervous Poison Gas Nervous System Poison Gas

Author:George Lois

“Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.”

People Mind Three Dangerous Type Politician Advertising Executives Graffiti

Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at all can find expression in our controlled media and educational systems. Forget about wholesale culture- or civilization-critics like Marxists. Universities have to be purged of any "radicalism" that can see through to the roots of issues and pathologies, for the same reasons that workers have to have nascent unions aborted among them and contrarian newspapers and media have to be starved of advertising.”

“I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second.”

Firsts Persons Advertising Being A Woman

Author:Shirley Polykoff

“Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.”

Attention Rocks Fashion Products Equal Gold Marketing Wit Advertising Latter Executives Sincerity Mainstream Ignored Demographics Merchandise Imitator Distributors Gold Rush Coordinator

Author:Kim Thayil

“We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.”

Done Seems Force Television Painting Communication Impact Radio Speed Advertising Visuals Old Fashioned Gusto

Author:James Rosenquist

“Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.”

Information Disappear Advertising

Author:Dave Winer

“Real content marketing isn’t repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.”

Real Talking Marketing Advertising Content Marketing

Author:Seth Godin

“We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.”

Want Company Advertising Consumers Relevant Users Google Linked Incentives

Author:Susan Wojcicki

“Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship.”

Dialogue Advertising Invitations

Author:Lester Wunderman

“It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.”

Wells Models Advertising Devices Mobile Transactions Business Models Advertising Business

Author:Patrick Collison

“The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.”

Men Want Two Philosophy Behinds Wise Marketing Witty Every Man Advertising Observation Great Advertising Advertising And Marketing Advertisement Negative

Book:The Business of Life

Source: The Business of Life

“Censorship is advertising paid by the government.”

Government Paid Advertising Censorship Advertising Agencies

Author:Federico Fellini

“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.”

Men Firsts May Mean Enough Use Bigs Running Paper Ambition News Instruments Advertising Journalism Vulgar Creeps Ambassadors Advertisements Apothecary

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.”

Stills Lasts Cities Amount Healthy Direct Competition Advertising Tag Gauges

Author:Barry McGee

“The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.”

People Knows Rooms Products Messages Breaths Sells Advertising Appropriate Flood Living Room Intestines Appropriate Time

Book:The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

“The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.”

Court Democratic Advertising Advertisers Jester Court Jester

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.”

People Needs Effort Students Institutions Advertising Farms Exploitation Extensions Earnest Publicity Locality Continuous Effort

Book:Reprints of Addresses

Source: Reprints of Addresses

“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”

Used Language Messages Advertising Competing Proposal Assembly

Author:John Berger

“The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.”

Art Advertising Repetition Untruthfulness

Author:Freya Stark

“Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.”

Needs Race Pressure Productions Satisfied Advertising Consumers Electric Chasing Carrots Donkey Salesmanship Electric Car

Author:J. B. Priestley

“To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and under-age children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.”

Children Light Law Wife Century Late Advantage Tools Innovation Praise Technique Advertising Fixed Extras Artificial Apprentice Employing Artificial Light Working Late

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.”

“Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.”

Thinking Writing Poet Advertising Journalist Novelists Mainstream Good Writers Bloggers

Author:Sara Sheridan

“I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.”

Age Advertising Clock Eighteen

Author:Jan Karon

“I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.”

Done Lines Fiction Color Advertising Editors Defeated Work Done

Author:Jan Karon

“They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'”

Said Play Records Rocks Hair Sells Radio Advertising Punk They Said Punk Rock

Author:Billy Idol

“You start losing a client the moment you get it.”

Moments Losing Advertising Clients

Author:Jay Chiat

“How big can we get before we get bad?”

Bigs Advertising

Author:Jay Chiat

“My real talent was for losing clients.”

Real Talent Losing Advertising Clients Real Talent

Author:Jay Chiat

“American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.”

World Whole Christian Lying Culture Worst Instinct Advertising American Culture Materialistic Intertwined

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.”

Kind Turns Sound Amount Advertising Sarcasm Toms Insulting Like Something Wry Disparaging Hee Haw

Author:Tom Bodett

“I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising.”

Believe Don't Believe Advertising Knights

Author:Phil Knight

“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.”

Humanity Literature Honest Advertising Being Honest Contribution Zero Constructive Admitting Minus Racket Adverts Great Advertising Advertisement Negative

Book: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

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

“The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.”

People Wells Wisdom Faces Universe Common Wonderful Minutes Taste Musical Advertising Reaching Description Online Diverse Site Mice Niche Clicks Demographics

Author:Michael Azerrad

“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.”

Giving Believe Stills Play Dream Funny Perfect Music Grew Promise Grew Up Infinite Advertising Piano Mail Mud Founding Our Dreams I Still Believe Complexion

Book:The Collected Writings

Source: The Collected Writings

“I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.”

Knows Way Years Advertising Hated

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.”

Way Might Social Creating Welcome Advertising Consumers Relevant Ads Google Networking Delivery Social Networking Social Network Spam

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.”

Feels Should Film Pay Company Sells Advertising

Author:Billy Crudup

“Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?”

People World Want Party Selling Advertising

Author:Paul Arden

“There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.”

Want Self Company Products Advertising Clients

Author:Paul Arden

“We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.”

People Ifs Want Trying Feelings House Car Sells Add Clean Smell Bread Selling Advertising Friendly Priests Polish

Author:Paul Arden

“There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.”

People Ifs Artist Advertising Protest Beneficial

Author:Giorgio Armani

“The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.”

Want Needs Given Lines Influence Information Tvs Window Screens Advertising Useless Slow Down Clutter Providers Downloads

Author:Robert Cailliau

“Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy.”

Ifs Enough Moving Suffering Fall Individual Rooms Fronts Tvs Keys Internet Healthy Pages Seasons Critics Advertising Depressing Exclusive Limitless Inventory Hbo Sponsorship Showtime Jezebel

Author:Nick Denton

“I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.”

Ifs Knows Reason Taste Patterns Advertising Optimist Distribution

Author:Willem Dafoe

“My father did advertising photography.”

Father Photography Advertising

Author:Andreas Gursky