Charles Bronson Quotes

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

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.

When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

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

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Marketing is not a nice word, but the world is about marketing now.

Marketing is the obverse of programming.

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!

Everything in our world is branded.

As members of a social species endowed with large brains, we are natural-born marketers. Capitalism, the economic system that has elevated innumerable people out of abject poverty and misery, is founded on marketing. Everything that defines your daily existence has the indelible marks of marketing on it.

I don't like ads. I don't like selling things. That's not me.

You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.

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.

You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most successful artists are the ones who can mix creativity with business.