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I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising. -- Michael Hastings
Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising, -- Michael Hastings
Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access. -- Jaron Lanier
We are not advertising ourselves as a secure platform. It's a communication platform. It's not our job to police the world or Snapchat of jerks. -- Evan Spiegel
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I? -- Salman Rushdie
Telling lies does not work in advertising. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. -- Thornton Wilder
In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal. -- William Bernbach
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. -- Christopher Lasch
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. -- David Ogilvy
If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art. -- Michael Schudson
We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari. -- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. -- William Bernbach
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. -- Leo Burnett
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless. -- Jef I. Richards
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. -- David Ogilvy
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. -- David Ogilvy
I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not. -- Linda Evangelista
There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre. -- Jef I. Richards
Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising. -- Maurice Saatchi
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. -- Lily Cole
People used to say that advertising wasn't in Google's DNA, and that's obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn't in Google's DNA, and that's not true any more. -- Susan Wojcicki
Boxes and rectangles on the side or top of a website simply do not deliver against brand advertising goals. Like it or not, boxes and rectangles have for the most part become the province of direct response advertising, or brand advertising that pays, on average, as if it's driven by direct response metrics. -- John Battelle
Because I'm in advertising, not electricity! -- Jerry Della Femina
Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands. -- David Ogilvy
The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific. -- Mason Cooley
In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal. -- William Bernbach
I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising. -- John Hodgman
The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying, -- Mary Wells Lawrence
The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far -- Claude C. Hopkins
The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed. -- Charles Adams
Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid. -- Carl Sagan
A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously. -- Robert Kane Pappas
Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them. -- Leo Burnett
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. -- Leo Burnett
When you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product. -- Van Jones
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief -- Leo Burnett
Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says. -- Kenneth Roman
Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless. -- Adolph Ochs
Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true. -- William Wrigley, Jr.
Advertising, if it is any good, should help to confirm what already is, not what should be. -- Scott Bedbury
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless -- Jef I. Richards
We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake. -- Meg Whitman
On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work! -- Vinton Cerf
Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times. -- Akio Morita
The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have. -- Jennifer Pozner
I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course. -- Lucrecia Martel
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. -- E. W. Howe
One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising. -- Howard Rheingold
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed. -- Maurice Saatchi
Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance. -- Barry Ritholtz
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. -- Edward Abbey
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. -- Fran Lebowitz
The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students. -- Dick Gephardt
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. -- Mitt Romney
Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay. -- Gia Carangi
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. -- David Ogilvy
Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional. -- Prince William of Hesse-Kassel
Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment. -- John Sculley
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal -- John Berger
WhatsApp only wanted to focus on how current users were engaging with the product. Like how they did not use advertising and kept the experience uncluttered. -- Jim Goetz
Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray. -- Bob Garfield
I started noticing a lot of big companies are bored with ads; they feel sort of lost in the advertising world. They're not into magazines anymore. -- Gavin McInnes
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos. -- Bill Vaughan
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos -- R. H. Coase
I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it. -- Franny Armstrong
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death. -- Leo Burnett
I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke. -- Michel Houellebecq
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant. -- Brenda Ueland
Advertising revenue available for all programmers, all broadcasters is not enough to create quality programming, and subscription revenues are very, very minimal which come to all programmers. -- Subhash Chandra
Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward. -- Gary Pruitt
It is not "just beer," it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad. -- Stephen Beaumont
Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers. -- Eugene Schwartz
[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don't like it. -- Charles Krauthammer
Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it. -- Tariq Ramadan
I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual. -- Patricia Piccinini
The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press. -- Barbara Corcoran
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. -- Leo Burnett
If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached. -- Maurice Levy
The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer, -- Charlie Ergen
The world is changing... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side, let's take the side of the consumer. -- Charlie Ergen
Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it. -- Stephen King
Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there. -- Tim Wu
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. -- Eric Drooker
A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials. -- Virginia Postrel

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