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  Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

  Leo Burnett

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Humility, Giving

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"

  David Ogilvy

  Dog, Humorous, Agency

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Success, Fun

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• The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Life, America

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 18, 1954.

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• Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

  Ellen Willis

  Art, Mass Consumption, Corporate

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Essence, Democracy, Transcendentalism

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• In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.

  William Bernbach

  Suicide, Suicidal, Marketing

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• In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

  Thornton Wilder

  Suicide, Marketing, Different

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• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Money, Fear, Animal Intelligence

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press

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• Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Marketing, Buckets

  Attributed

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

  George Santayana

  Religion, Argument, Modern

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Organization, Important

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• A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

  Nicholas Johnson

  Moral, Skip, Viewers

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• We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

  Ben Nicholson

  Quality, Pushing, Clients

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• We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Business, Desire, Advertisements

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

  John Lahr

  Business, Crazy, People

  The Guardian, August 1989.

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• Make a Fair Product for a Fair Price, then Tell the World.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Success, World, Products

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• More traffic means more advertising dollars.

  Jeff Zucker

  Mean, Dollars, Traffic

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• 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

  Business, Thinking, Honest

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Trying, Sometimes, Faster

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• I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  Len Wein

  Art, School, College

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

  Michael Schudson

  Ignorance, Agency, Criticism

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.45, Routledge

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