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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. -- Nat King Cole
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. -- David Ogilvy
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. -- David Ogilvy
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. -- Fred Allen
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. -- Marshall McLuhan
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. -- David Ogilvy
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. -- Franz Kafka
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. -- David Ogilvy
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. -- Raymond Chandler
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. -- David Ogilvy
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. -- Emile Zola
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. -- Fred Allen
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. -- David Ogilvy
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario. -- Jean Baudrillard
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. -- David Ogilvy
Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham. -- John Lydon
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. -- Leo Burnett
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. -- John F. Kennedy
Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness. -- Michael Schudson
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account. -- David Ogilvy
Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work. -- David Ogilvy
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it. -- Carl Perkins
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising. -- David Ogilvy
All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down. -- Kalle Lasn
Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. -- Tina Brown
I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything. -- Renny Harlin
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open. -- Jerry Robinson
Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't. -- Cindy Gallop
Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise. -- Bryce Courtenay
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. -- Michael Schudson
Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does... -- Howard Schultz
No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. -- Claire LaZebnik
Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second. -- Mark Jackson
I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium. -- Robert Altman
[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries. -- James Dyson
The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues. -- James Surowiecki
Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness -- Michael Schudson

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