#advertising

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. ↗

— Kit Williams

#ancient #contemporary #contemporary society #engine #i

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising. ↗

— James Collins

#device #induce #magazine #people #read

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#buy #consumers #content #decides #form

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#advertising #agencies #criticism #happens #ignorance

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. ↗

— William Allen White

#america #comfort #ease #genie #into

I should go into advertising or public relations because if there is someone or something I like, I will promote it like it’s the cure for whatever ailment is in your life. If I love you, I want you to love what I love. Consider yourself smitten or else, suffer hearing me talk about it nonstop…until you also love it. ↗

— Katie Kiesler

#love #making-decisions #public-relations #age

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do… ↗

— George Lois

#branding-expert #marketing #art

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#always #cake #icing #just #said

LONG-DISTANCE READING: To determine the readable distance in feet, of words on a billboard, take half the height of one of the letters in inches and multiply by 100. ↗

— Thos. Hodgson

#design