Quote by Leo Burnett
Ive learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real geniu

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

Other quotes by 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

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good
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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

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Art
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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

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Advertising
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You start losing a client the moment you get it. – Jay Chiat

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Advertising

When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select “The Age of Advertising” for the purpose. – Printers’ Ink, 27 May 1915

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Advertising

I have… had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out. – Colin McEnroe

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Advertising

So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free. – Jason Love

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Advertising

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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form. – Andrew Cuomo

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Society

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. – William Butler Yeats

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alone