Patrick Swayze Quotes

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

If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.

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

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

Marketing is designed to bring people into something.

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

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.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

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

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

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

Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

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

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

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

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

Everybody is promoting something.

Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.

Those who tell us to be in touch with our own desires are often merely trying to make us believe that what we want is the thing that they are selling. […] We're used to that kind of persuasion, for political candidates as well as commercial products.