Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Life tests us to see our level of endurance.

I think there is a bit of a concern out there regarding the health of their advertising and e-commerce revenues and some concern regarding the backlog. I think it’s possible that they could miss the...

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They...

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.

We are proud of another record revenue quarter in our advertising business and are pleased with our overall 2005 results in light of the continued challenging environment surrounding the mobile value-added service sector in China.

O sistema de produção privada manipula e intoxica o consumidor. Por requintados mecanismos de alienação publicitários, as aspirações e normas de comportamento das populações são controladas e integradas no sistema. Cria artificialmente, necessidades, modas, marcas,...

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

I do not read advertisements – I would spend all my time wanting things

[As the economy continues to rebound, advertising budgets continue to fatten.] All ships should rise in this market, … It should be a record year.

One day at lunch, we got the idea of paying for business forms by offering advertising on the back side,

Online advertising will serve as a catalyst for change in the traditional ad business. Media integration and the inevitable erosion of traditional markets will be more important than the effects of online ad dollar growth.

Cosmetic surgery is not “cosmetic,” and human flesh is not “plastic.” Even the names trivialize what it is. It’s not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the...

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

We’ve seen $4.1 billion in online advertising through June 30. Last year at this point, we saw $1.7 billion. When you’re looking at a U.S. advertising market in the high $200 billion to $300 billion...

Does anyone here work in advertising or marketing? Well if you do, when you get home take a gun shoot yourself. No bullshit, I’m not joking just do it. I’m just sowing seeds, one day...

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don’t destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

Sending e-mail helps to cut down the cost of First Friday, things like advertising and flyers. We’re looking at $500 to 600 per month.

Word of mouth is often louder than word of hand, although applause can be deafening. I clap like Helen Keller drank coffee—with two spoonfuls of silence.

By doing extraordinary things you are contributing to create a better world. Memorable should be the new usual…

The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman can exact from her lover. If he appreciates her face and body because...

Women are mere “beauties” in men’s culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable. A beautiful heroine is a contradiction...

These efforts toward product differentiation could face future legal challenges from the networks. Also, the potential advertising opportunity could take several years to scale, if at all.

It’s never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire,...

Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed...

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease.

Advertising is far more than just a communications industry. It’s a problem-solving industry that also teaches you about life, how it encourages you to focus your thinking and produce something of genuine value. Why? Because...

One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising...

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don’t do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped...

Let’s work together to design and measure new advertising strategies.

News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.

I think it all comes down to Wal-Mart’s aggressive advertising campaign, … They are being much louder with their campaign, and I think they’ve done a good job of stealing the ‘early-bird’ holiday shoppers.

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Companies certainly back out [of advertising] when they feel their message won’t resonate with customers or the media.

In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library...

As the wall between advertising and content erodes, the aptitude required to understand the functions and design of media content becomes more complex.

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex–or, if “beautiful,” her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits in her something she needs to live, and gives her the ultimate anaphrodisiac:...

A celebrity’s body is an advertiser’s canvas.

Cable television is more of a recognized medium and a very good advertising vehicle. It took it a long time to be recognized as such. Internet advertising is getting there faster.

Banner advertising for us is extremely important.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year’s model. The system attempts to...

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

The incessant witless repetition of advertisers’ moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.