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The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.
Philip Kotler
The most effective advertising is generated by content patrons.
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Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
Peter Tosh
Sanction it, and I will promote it.
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Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.
Dizzy Dean
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The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
David Ogilvy
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Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.
Jean Kilbourne
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The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
Wyndham Lewis
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The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
Enoch Powell
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You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.
David Neeleman
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You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.
Roger Corman
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Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
Fairfax M. Cone
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Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
Michael Schudson
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There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.
Maurice Saatchi
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You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
Barry Diller
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Franz Kafka
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Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do.
George Lois
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The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.
Brian Solis
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
Al Ries
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The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.
David Ogilvy
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The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying.
Mary Wells Lawrence
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You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.
John Nance Garner
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You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
Dick Gregory
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
Freya Stark
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The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.
Brian Tracy
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Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.
David Ogilvy
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Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship.
Lester Wunderman
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A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
Nicholas Johnson
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Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.
Jean-Louis Gassee
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Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
Leo Burnett
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The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.
Claude C. Hopkins
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
Edwin Land
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News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
George Orwell
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Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.
Vitor Belfort
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Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.
Ingrid Bengis
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I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.
Benjamin Day
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Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
Michael Schudson
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
P. T. Barnum
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I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.
Leo Burnett
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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
William Bernbach
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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
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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Northrop Frye
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Unless a product becomes outmoded, a great campaign will not wear itself out.
Rosser Reeves
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The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
Leo Burnett
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
Ann Voskamp
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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.
Marshall McLuhan
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When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
Rem Koolhaas