Famous Quotes & Sayings

The business is getting smaller -- the advertising, the TV, the magazine -- everything is going down. This company is not going to go away tomorrow. However, the losses are getting scary.

Fred Allen

A vice president in an advertising agency is a ""molehill man"" who has until 5 PM to make a molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.

Audiences are so sophisticated these days. Blatant, in-your-face advertising just doesn't work.

Athletes are under the microscope, and it's a risk for advertisers to spend millions on someone who could get embroiled in scandal.

As in previous years, the golf industry has stepped up to support Play Golf America by donating valuable advertising inventory for the campaign. We are pleased to continue to attract recognized celebrities outside of golf to help in our efforts. It shows the depth of interest in the game.

That's where he showed me that there was a sponsorship the government gave to (advertising company) Lafleur, and by spending three days in jeans with a beer in hand it's much easier to establish contacts,

Orlando Jones

That's how I found myself in the advertising world, with my partner. I was trying to get a tape of me doing something that I thought was funny.

Alcohol advertising was a contributing factor to youth drinking quantities over time.

Alison has a proven track record of delivering results for advertisers who want to connect with younger readers. Quick has been successful in delivering this younger audience since we launched it three years ago, and we are confident that she can build on that momentum going forward.

Alka-Seltzer has some of the most famous advertising of all time and the brand has withstood the test of time. This was a way to tap into the 75th anniversary. Tapping into the familiar, tried and true seemed a very natural place to go.

Mark Wright

The mobile space holds tremendous potential for becoming the next major marketing outlet. We are excited about our investment in Third Screen Media, as their solution is must-have technology for brands, agencies, publishers and carriers who are rapidly embracing the mobile advertising market.

John Battelle

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.

Earnings of our conventional TV businesses were negatively impacted in the quarter by the Olympic Winter Games, which distorted normal ratings and advertising revenues in all television markets over a two-week period in February.

Big advertisers are looking more for stature and less for ubiquity. It is individual, well-planned and targeted campaigns that will be hitting our streets.

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

It's the biggest single quarter the interactive industry has ever had, ... It's a big deal, especially given that a lot of people wanted to claim the death of Internet advertising two years ago.

It's more than a business to us. Our No. 1 source of information is strictly the paper ... and for advertising, as well. It's very much a part of our community. It's where we have our community conversation.

Jay Chiat

How big can we get before we get bad?

Jay Chiat

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

Kathryn Minshew

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.

Kit Williams

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

Julian Smith

Greater demand for online advertising space will help media owners expand their offerings and improve revenue yields from their properties.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

Dick Ebersol

For the first time a major sports property has largely migrated from network to cable, where the dual revenue streams of subscriber fees and advertising can support the escalating costs of broadcast sports rights, ... In the future, it will become almost impossible for broadcast television sports to match the power of those 'sub' fees, which are unique to the cable world.

J. M. Coetzee

Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both are forms of scapegoating, neither accomplishes anything.

I don't take advertising. I just try to present facts. I thought there had to be a way to get women this information.

I am pleased with the company's record second- quarter results, ... and that the outlook for the remainder of 1999 appears favorable, with strong demand for network radio advertising as well as at Shadow Traffic.

Carine Roitfeld

I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

Terry Semel

I believe online advertising will increase in importance and ultimately will get a larger share of company's overall marketing budgets, ... We see this time as our opportunity to regroup, rebuild and be stronger than ever for when ad spending picks up again around the middle of 2002.

Raymond Chandler

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

By the 1990s, advertising with celebrities had really taken off,

But ultimately I see it being a large part of the online video advertising scene.

Gloria Steinem

The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators.