All George Lois Quotes
- The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. Business
- Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires. Beast
- Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything… Advertising
- Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. Central
- Creativity can solve almost any problem, Any
- In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction. Always Proof
- Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.… Act
- Working hard and doing doing great work is as imperative as breathing. Creating great work warms the heart and enriches the soul. Those of us… Best
- The accurate measure of a human being is what he or she actually gets done. Accurate
- I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick. Advertising
- You can be cautious or you can be creative (but there's no such thing as a cautious creative). Cautious
- Only mediocre ideas can be tested. Ideas
- A cautious creative is an oxymoron. Cautious
- The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous! Courageous
- The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness. Creative
- Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought. Failures
- Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the… Former
- Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out. Advertising
- Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. Act
- If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his… Ambition
- Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. Absolute