If you are writing about baloney, dont try and make it Cornish hen, because thats the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney. – Leo Burnett
Ive learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. – Leo Burnett
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. – Leo Burnett
A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you aint got nothin. – Leo Burnett
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its product cannot be turned out on an assembly line. – Leo Burnett
If you dont get noticed, you dont have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks. – Leo Burnett
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. – Leo Burnett
What helps people, helps business. – Leo Burnett
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. – Leo Burnett
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. – Leo Burnett
