Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing. — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements. — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
“An idea is nothing more or less than a new combination of old elements (Quoted from Vilfredo Pareto)” — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
“Riding horseback along a country lane I saw wild roses in bloom, against an old stone wall. The expensive, improved varieties in my garden… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious. — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it. — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image