#advertising

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. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #eating-disorders #self-esteem #society

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

#am #believes #boring #dangers #death

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#anyone #around #estimate #fooled #inaccurate

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#permanent #success #such #thing

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. ↗

— Stuart Chase

#applied #could #remake #sanely #world

One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster. ↗

— John Michael Greer

#economics #myth #peak-oil #age

The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science. ↗

— Claude C. Hopkins

#come #hands #reached #science #some

The great art is to endure ↗

— Metternich

#art

'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

#any #buy #comfortable #except #headline

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#american #believe #complexion #dreams #founding