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“Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.”

Leo Burnett

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If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all.

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Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash.

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I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

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Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't…

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Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

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When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

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I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me.

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