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Advertising Agency Quotes

Ambition and craft inside the advertising agency world.

These advertising agency quotes describe real career ambition, from dreaming of running an advertising agency by thirty to comparing agency work with photography.

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as...

Quotes by Sigmar Polke

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better,...

Quotes by Michael Specter

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

Quotes by Leo Burnett

My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.

Quotes by John G. Avildsen

Advertising Quotes

I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize....

Quotes by Eric Bristow

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

Quotes by David Ogilvy

The majority of advertising agency creatives are creative people, but we've disciplined ourselves to think within traditional formats. I want to change that.

Quotes by David Droga

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.

Quotes by Cynthia Voigt

After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in particular. At age 23, I drew my first comic.

Quotes by Akira Toriyama

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these advertising agency quotes discuss?
They discuss ambition, craft, and the human side of running or working within an advertising agency.
Is there a quote about career goals?
Yes, one speaker recalls dreaming of owning their own advertising agency by age thirty.
Do the quotes compare agency work to other creative fields?
Yes, one compares agency work to photography, noting both operate within the same creative reality.
Is agency work described as impersonal?
No, one quote insists agency work is warmly and immediately human, built around real needs and hopes.
Where can I read more quotes about advertising careers?
See the advertising quotes page for more on the field.

Others call agency work deeply human, built around real needs and hopes rather than anything turned out on an assembly line.