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
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
The privacy of public office, the publicity of private life
If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance
I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes
Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life
Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better