“ I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to the people who see it every week. Bad advertising can unsell a product. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
- 1.2K
“ There are a couple of fairly interesting soundtrack situations that we can't yet announce, because we're still in negotiation. And beyond that, we'll start looking at other artists. ”
- Harry Shearer- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads. ”
- Jack Reed- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years. ”
- Martha Stewart- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The processes of perception are inaccessible; only the products are conscious and, of course, it is the products that are necessary. ”
- Gregory Bateson- Copy
- 4K
“ One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product. ”
- Peter Gabriel- Copy
- 2K
“ Our helicopter resources are limited,... We need massive cargo helicopter support. ”
- Pervez Musharraf- Copy
- 756
“ The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 72
“ By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven. ”
- John Rutledge- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Junk is the ideal product… the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the ad increases. ”
- Dr. Charles Edwards- Copy
- 1.6K
“ This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. ”
- Amelia E. Barr- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
- 3K
“ Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 1.3K
“ There is a light at the end of the tunnel… hopefully its not a freight train! ”
- Mariah Carey- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone, see what a vast estate he left his son. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
- 744
“ We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself. ”
- Jim Allchin- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
- 869
“ Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings — and they will always come back. ”
- L.L. Bean- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Why do Jell-O and Coke pay Bill Cosby to sell their products? Why do politicians wrap themselves in the flag? Why is Miller brewed the American way? Why do we love baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet? Why? Because these people and symbols are already powerful anchors in the culture, and the advertisers are simply transferring the feeling we have for these people or symbols to their products… ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
- 64
“ The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds — The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all she needs; But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun', They're just the same as you an' me, a'-plyin' up an' down. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is — not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are really part of a very big advertising program, and the fact that they make so much money is because the markets have dictated that they get that money, and the fact that they endorse our products allows us to sell more products and create more jobs. ”
- Philip Knight- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ”
- Albert J. Nock- Copy
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