Martellus Bennett Quotes

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

We need to be much more robust consumers.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

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.

The public aren't stupid, they know that celebrities are getting paid to promote. I don't want to influence young women to do or buy something that I don't feel passionate about, just so I get paid for it.

Anything that I actually do drink myself or I do actually use myself, I'm going to be into promoting it.

I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

What were we told to do? Get back on those airplanes. Shop in the malls. The trouble was that the only role they had for us was as consumers—not as citizens.

Basic labeling and consumer information hasn’t been a chief priority, but hopefully now its starting to change.

Whether it's buying products or researching what you're buying, or just becoming aware of what you're buying, you're saying so much with the money that you're spending.

As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.

Ads sway kids' preferences. Star athletes spokespeople sway kids' preference.

The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.

I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way.

I think teens trust each other's opinions about products because of the quality of authenticity that they think their friend's recommendation has.

I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.

As consumers, we are making choices, and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.