Advertising Money Quotes
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- Many of the quotes are critical of advertising, seeing it as biased, a waste of money, or manipulative
- Quotes are attributed to people like Thomas Babington Macaulay, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark McKinnon, Carol Paris, Noam Chomsky, and others
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“Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising” — Thomas Babington Macaulay
“We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers” — Larry Page & Sergey Brin
“Advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results” — Larry Page & Sergey Brin
“There’s just very little return on media dollars anymore in politics because people just don’t believe political advertising. They’re just demanding authenticity and something that they think is real, and they know that advertising is not real. So those are – you might as well just burn that money. It’d be a better investment” — Mark McKinnon
“Like a cracked pipe, money gushes into our health care system but steadily leaks out. Money is siphoned into the advertising budgets of insurance companies and the army of corporate bureaucrats working to deny claims. Even more dollars are soaked up by the pockets of insurance CEOs” — Carol Paris
“It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars” — Noam Chomsky
Birthday December 7, 1928
“The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change” — Dick Wolf
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it” — Stephen Leacock
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half” — John Wanamaker
“Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer” — Helen Caldicott
“Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn’t have to advertise it” — Will Rogers
“A man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time” —Henry Ford
“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need” — Will Rogers
“Any advertiser who comes in with a prepared ad and money to pay for it will be looked on with favor” — Jeff Stein
“We’re banning ads for payday loans and some related products from our ads systems. We will no longer allow ads for loans where repayment is due within 60 days of the date of issue” — David Graff, Google