Quotes of: Advertising-agency Keyword

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Fred Allen

Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.

Tina Brown

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.

Judy Gold

My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.

John G. Avildsen

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.

Morris Hite

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

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

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....

Bryce Courtenay

I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and win...

Eric Bristow

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

Renny Harlin

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

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

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Ivan Illich

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Jef I. Richards

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

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

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

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

Michael Schudson

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

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Epic Fail

'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.

Adam Kluger