Peter Max Quotes

I'm proud to say that I'm in advertising.

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

We're very much an advertising agency, but it's not about creating ads as we know it.

My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.

I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.

I started small with commercials and print.

Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.

As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising.

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.

The advertising industry needs to keep evolving.

I had to write 1500 words on advertising and marketing at the weekend for my business management course, and you can't think about rugby while you are doing that!

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

I don't know marketing... clearly in engineering school you don't get much marketing training.

In college, I majored - I can't believe there is such a thing - in advertising. And I worked in advertising and PR for a while, and I liked it.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication courses, marketing courses, advertising courses, and courses basically teach advertising as a science, and advertising is so far from a science it isn't even funny. Advertising is an art.

I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.