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Leo Burnett

Leo Burnett Books

Advertising Executive

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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 do very well in advertising.”

“I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.”

“What helps people, helps business.”

“The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.”

“I have learned that you can’t have good advertising without a good client, that you can’t keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.”

“The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is a problem. I have always taken the attitude that no account is a 'problem account' but that all accounts have important problems attached to them - that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it. It sure gives you a nice, warm glow when you do.”

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

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

“Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.”

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

“The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.”

“I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.”

“I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.”