Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.

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

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

Advertising is a wonderful lubricant for business, if it's used properly.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

Marketing is designed to bring people into something.

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

I understand the concept of advertising. It makes sense. Companies want to reach customers with information about their products. It's a completely legitimate and valuable notion.

I formulated the theme behind 'The Grand Illusion' album after observing how American culture creates illusions through advertising and entertainment to convince us that our lives our lacking, in order to sell products.

Advertising has always been something I kind of understood.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that's what I try to get across to people. I hear very few radio commercials that sound like I could have written them or that they got the idea.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.