Calvin Klein Quotes

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

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

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.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Marketing is designed to bring people into something.

Advertising is the life of trade.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

Everybody is promoting something.

When I was in advertising we used to pull them in with naked women. Now I do it with swastikas and uniforms.

If people know they're being sold to, you can celebrate the sell.