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.

In our newspaper segment we reported advertising gains at our U.S. community newspapers, particularly in classified employment and real estate while auto remained soft.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.

You’re only as good as your next idea. And if you can’t agree on that, then it’s time to walk.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

This gives our clients exposure beyond just search advertising.

Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others’ clothes on.

You don’t sell the product, you sell the philosophy. When you sell a product, you have customers, when you sell a philosophy, you have believers.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

[Not surprisingly, those first two years fell flat.] I made plenty of mistakes, … Mostly about where to spend advertising money. I bought too many keywords. There were many search engines offering keyword buys that...

A company with no advertising is like a car with no headlights—it runs smoothly during the day, when people are awake and shopping, and saves money at night, when people are asleep.

If the prime real estate is turned over to an advertiser – and there is no mention that this is advertising – that’s a significant problem.

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can’t relax to let...

Healthy” and “diseased,” as Susan Sontag points out…are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.

There is a serious decline in the overall amount of advertising that’s going to be spent overall. We’re seeing it across the board.

The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for...

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

We found that if there was more advertising in a market there was more youth drinking.

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty ‘fixes’ that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under...

Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies, and reducing the meaning of women to these formulaic and endlessly...

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who’s at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?

For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from...

Gillette–The best a man can get.”I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was...

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Better to be known for something than be forgotten for nothing.

The ads are particularly interesting. People don’t realize the tremendous amount of history in advertising.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.