Quotes About The Advertising Industry

#1. At the start of the twenty-first century, the advertising industry is guiding one of history's most massive stealth efforts in social profiling.

Joseph Turow

#2. As the advertising industry, which is dedicated to the creation of masks, makes clear, that which cannot gain authority from tradition may borrow it with a mask.

Ralph Ellison

#3. The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the opposite.

Noam Chomsky

#4. 'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

Charles Edwards

#5. The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.

Simon Sinek

#6. As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#7. I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing offered me the chance to be far more creative.

Graeme Base

#8. I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again.

Jennifer Beals

#9. I think we have to recognize as an industry that users have a lot more choices and can click away to a lot more media. As a result, the advertising we create really needs to be something users want to see.

Susan Wojcicki

#10. Standing Post One that day was the scariest thing I've ever done. The one thing that got me through it was that I knew I was a Marine and, because of that, I knew I could do it.

Greg Matos

#11. There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

Steve Stoute

#12. Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

George Meyer

#13. There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising.

Peter Thiel

#14. It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be individuals from all walks of life, all backgrounds, and all political persuasions who love liberty enough to fight to maintain it.

Chuck Baldwin

#15. We need a visionary leader with very big and bold ideas. This is a very big, very bold country.

Newt Gingrich

#16. Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

John Olver

#17. Skype demonetized long-distance telephony; Craigslist demonetized classified advertising; Napster demonetized the music industry. This list goes on and on. More critically, because demonetization is also deceptive, almost no one within those industries was prepared for such radical change.

Peter H. Diamandis

#18. Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let's all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.

Thom Yorke

#19. When you envision yourself doing something, you'll be surprised at how much that helps you to actually do it.

Selim Nurudeen

#20. Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.

Benjamin Barber

#21. There are unlimited opportunities for display advertising. In fact, we're in the process of massive change in the display industry - how it's bought, how it's sold, and how it's targeted.

Susan Wojcicki

#22. Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

Britney Spears

#23. I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Ken Follett

#24. As a driver, you want to race every lap possible, especially when you've got a good car.

Romain Grosjean

#25. I'm wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face.

Tahereh Mafi

#26. The whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming it into the minds of gullible people who have no curiosity to find out why that is so.

Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

#27. Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

Banksy

#28. It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television.

Astra Taylor

#29. I am the fourth of five children, and I can't remember a time with no babies in the house.

Suzi Quatro

#30. It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

Konosuke Matsushita

#31. I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

Adam Kluger

#32. The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.

Theodor W. Adorno

#33. Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

Christian Audigier

#34. This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.

Jim C. Hines

#35. The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Andre Malraux