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I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.
- John Updike
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.
- David Ogilvy
Most of us spend more time with advertisements than with Scripture.
- Mark Buchanan
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
- David Ogilvy
Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.
- David Ogilvy
The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When a brand says, 'Our product is great, and we think it'll be great for anyone that loves it, too,' that's the ultimate marketing message.
- Rain Dove
A lot of people who are marketing to girls are going to where they are, not to where they ought to be.
- Judith Love Cohen
Advertisers personify the problems their customers face in order to capture their imagination and give their frustrations a focal point.
- Donald Miller
Branding affects how a customer feels about your brand, while marketing communicates a specific offer.
- Donald Miller
Branding concerns itself with fonts and colors and design.
- Donald Miller
When Apple began filtering their communication to make it simple and relevant, they actually stopped featuring computers in most of their advertising.
- Donald Miller