Paul Arden Quotes

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.

We run all kinds of ads, as long as they are clearly marked as advertising when there's ever a question. I think advertising is advertising. If it's 100 percent clear what it is, then, with certain exceptions, I can live with that.

We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

I would rather die than see my face in a car advertisement.

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'

Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

I don't think any reasonable person would object to you, as the advertiser, having say in who and what you want to pair your ad with.

I'm not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I'm embarrassed by a lot of advertising.

While you are responsible to your clients for sales results, you are responsible to consumers for the kind of advertising you bring into their homes.

Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility.

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

You start losing a client the moment you get it.

With this new initiative, Disney is doing what no major media company has ever done before in the United States. And what I hope every company will do going forward when it comes to the ads they show and the food they sell they're asking themselves one simple question: Is this good for our kids?

If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.