Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
Advertising Quotes
Mark Twain once edited a paper in Missouri. One of his subscribers wrote to him that he had found a spider in his paper and wanted to know whether it meant good luck or bad. Mark’s answer: “Old Subscriber: Finding a spider in your paper was neither good luck nor bad luck for you. The […]
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people’s lives. and you know, most people’s fantasies are pretty sad.
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a State or community than the editorial columns are.
News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things.
Remember, the function of the advertising agency is not to sell the product to the customer – it is to sell the “ad” to the “client”.
The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result – to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn’t need, or to make him think […]
In the world of advertising, there’s no such thing as a lie. There’s only expedient exaggeration.
