Sean Baker Quotes

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

A celebrity can gain attention in our otherwise busy lives. And celebrity sells.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

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.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

I have so much to thank reality TV for.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

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

Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.

I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

It's funny because Hollywood is such a small place that everyone really is less than 6 degrees of separation.

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.