Cindy Gallop Quotes

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

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.

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.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

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.

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.

I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution.

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.'

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.

I think the ongoing discussion of the world of advertising is, 'Where is the soul in advertising?'

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

advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

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

A lot of advertising has gotten worse. I think it's kind of lost its nerve, to be honest with you. I feel like the advertising of the '60s, they were nervier. You know why? Because there was less at stake.

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.

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.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.

I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.

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.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?'