#advertising

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#be different #different #suicide #virtual

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#factory #hope #lipstick #make #our

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#half #i #know #money #spend

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#find #half #i #i can #know

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#allowing #anxious #become #called #dismissed

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#among #awareness #books #contacts #create

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares. ↗

— Rosser Reeves

#advertising #aloud #cries #economics #extension

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#ambiguity #anyway #because #built #easy

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#hope #make #money #totally #unless