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Famous Leo Burnett Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

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