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If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table

If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.

If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

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

I had to quit triathlons, I continued to be active and worked in advertising agency .

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

I have learned that you can’t have good advertising without a good client, that you can’t keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.

I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.

I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.

I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to the people who see it every week. Bad advertising can unsell a product.

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

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.

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.

Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

I'm slightly ambivalent to the whole relationship between the whole advertising world and music. I think sometimes it works and sometimes it's a really bad mismatch. I think on this occasion its fine because the iPod is like your own mini-library and that can't be a bad thing. It promotes eclecticism and that's very much what we are about so it's a good relationship.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

In case you're wondering what we all do here during the commercial breaks, mostly we just sit around making catty remarks about the outfits you're all wearing at home.

In Europe, a product must be good, or it will not sell in competition with other products; with you, it is enough to say that it is good, often enough and sufficiently loudly. The keenest competition is not in the making of things but in the advertising of them!

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You.

In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

I see "demand creation" as a 20th-century construct that's bound up with advertising. It's an outmoded view of marketing that says, "First, we build a product or service, then we advertise it into people's lives." Embedded this view is the belief that companies control brands. This is a myth. My message all along has been that brands are actually created by customers, not companies. Companies only provide the raw materials - the products, messaging, behaviors - that people use these to create brands.

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

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.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look, and read.

I think mobile advertising is going to be huge.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.

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.

It's very fascinating, it's very addictive, and it's incredibly challenging. You're never satisfied. It's kind of like advertising. You're never satisfied

It's smart to be thrifty.