Tracy K. Smith Quotes

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

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

Advertisers realize that Gen Y is the largest purchasing cohort. Also, that you're going to have to accept some different modes of thinking if you're going to get to them.

Children's television has been grossly over-commercialized. The subtle message is, "Buy me! Buy me!

Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.

I formulated the theme behind 'The Grand Illusion' album after observing how American culture creates illusions through advertising and entertainment to convince us that our lives our lacking, in order to sell products.

A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should smoke, what clothes and shoes they should wear, what they should eat and what brand of food they should buy. Their political ideas are supplied in the same way. Every year a trillion dollars is spent on advertising.

When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'

Advertising is the life of trade.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

Everything is so aggressively marketed at every age: if you're not in Baby Gap, you're not cool. That's how everybody's grown up, so they don't even know it could be another way.

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

Advertising is a very fundamental need, so I don't think it's going to go away.

The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.'