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Advertising and marketing12 quotes
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. — Tyler Durden · 1999It is the professional duty of the advertising agent to conceal his artifice. When Aeschines spoke, they said. "How well he speaks." But when Demosthenes spoke, they said. "Let us march against Philip." — David Ogilvy · 1963In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope. — Charles H. Revson · 1976In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. — Mark Twain · 1876What you call love was invented by guys like me... To sell Nylons. — Don Draper · 2007A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand. — Dorothy L. Sayers · 1947All 12 quotes →Consumerism2 quotes
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. — Tyler Durden · 1999A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand. — Dorothy L. Sayers · 1947Adolescence1 quote
Adolescence is a marketing tool. — Elaine Miller · 2000Art1 quote
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan · 1976Coveting1 quote
In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. — Mark Twain · 1876Cultivating desire1 quote
In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. — Mark Twain · 1876Love1 quote
What you call love was invented by guys like me... To sell Nylons. — Don Draper · 2007National character1 quote
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. — Norman Douglas · 1917