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| text = Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.<ref>{{cite book |last=Forbes |first=B.C. |title=The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life |publisher=Forbes Inc. |date=1968}}</ref> |
| text = Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.<ref>{{cite book |last=Forbes |first=B.C. |title=The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life |publisher=Forbes Inc. |date=1968}}</ref> |
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| text = Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shapiro |first=Fred R. |title=The Yale Book of Quotations |publisher=Yale University Press |date=2006}}</ref> |
| text = Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shapiro |first=Fred R. |title=The Yale Book of Quotations |publisher=Yale University Press |date=2006}}</ref> |
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| text = In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bruce Barton Classic Quotations |url=http://www.ravintokirja.fi/T_Superlist.pdf |website=The Superlist |publisher=Christer Sundqvist |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=1955 |author=Barton, Bruce}}</ref> |
| text = In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bruce Barton Classic Quotations |url=http://www.ravintokirja.fi/T_Superlist.pdf |website=The Superlist |publisher=Christer Sundqvist |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=1955 |author=Barton, Bruce}}</ref> |
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| text = Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'<ref>{{cite news |title=Refining the Definition of Advertising |work=Journal of Advertising |date=2002 |author=Jef I. Richards |publisher=American Academy of Advertising}}</ref> |
| text = Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'<ref>{{cite news |title=Refining the Definition of Advertising |work=Journal of Advertising |date=2002 |author=Jef I. Richards |publisher=American Academy of Advertising}}</ref> |
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| text = Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Creative Revolutionist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/03/obituaries/william-bernbach-is-dead-at-71.html |work=The New York Times |date=October 3, 1982 |access-date=December 19, 2025}}</ref> |
| text = Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Creative Revolutionist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/03/obituaries/william-bernbach-is-dead-at-71.html |work=The New York Times |date=October 3, 1982 |access-date=December 19, 2025}}</ref> |
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| text = A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
| text = A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
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| text = Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Leo Burnett Story |url=https://leoburnett.com/about |publisher=Leo Burnett Worldwide |access-date=December 19, 2025}}</ref> |
| text = Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Leo Burnett Story |url=https://leoburnett.com/about |publisher=Leo Burnett Worldwide |access-date=December 19, 2025}}</ref> |
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| text = An ad is finished only when you no longer can find a single element to remove.<ref>{{cite book |last=Baker |first=Stephen |title=The Art of Writing Advertising |publisher=Benjamin Company |date=1965}}</ref> |
| text = An ad is finished only when you no longer can find a single element to remove.<ref>{{cite book |last=Baker |first=Stephen |title=The Art of Writing Advertising |publisher=Benjamin Company |date=1965}}</ref> |
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| text = The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
| text = The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
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| text = An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Creative Mind of Lee Clow |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1670642/the-creative-mind-of-lee-clow |website=Fast Company |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=2012-08-28 |author=Fast Company Staff}}</ref> |
| text = An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Creative Mind of Lee Clow |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1670642/the-creative-mind-of-lee-clow |website=Fast Company |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=2012-08-28 |author=Fast Company Staff}}</ref> |
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| text = Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.<ref>{{cite book |last=Burnett |first=Leo |title=100 Leo's: The Advertising Philosophy of Leo Burnett |publisher=Leo Burnett Company |date=1961}}</ref> |
| text = Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.<ref>{{cite book |last=Burnett |first=Leo |title=100 Leo's: The Advertising Philosophy of Leo Burnett |publisher=Leo Burnett Company |date=1961}}</ref> |
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| text = People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull...When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
| text = People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull...When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
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| text = Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes, it's an ad.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gossage |first=Howard |title=The Book of Gossage |publisher=Copy Workshop |date=1995}}</ref> |
| text = Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes, it's an ad.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gossage |first=Howard |title=The Book of Gossage |publisher=Copy Workshop |date=1995}}</ref> |
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| text = Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.<ref>{{cite book |last=Burnett |first=Leo |title=Communications of an Advertising Man |publisher=Privately printed |date=1961}}</ref> |
| text = Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.<ref>{{cite book |last=Burnett |first=Leo |title=Communications of an Advertising Man |publisher=Privately printed |date=1961}}</ref> |
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| text = Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.<ref>{{cite book |last=Godin |first=Seth |title=Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us |publisher=Portfolio/Penguin |date=2008}}</ref> |
| text = Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.<ref>{{cite book |last=Godin |first=Seth |title=Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us |publisher=Portfolio/Penguin |date=2008}}</ref> |
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| text = Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
| text = Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
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| text = Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be dismissed.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fallon |first=Ivan |title=The Brothers: The Rise and Rise of Saatchi & Saatchi |publisher=Hutchinson |date=1988}}</ref> |
| text = Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be dismissed.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fallon |first=Ivan |title=The Brothers: The Rise and Rise of Saatchi & Saatchi |publisher=Hutchinson |date=1988}}</ref> |
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| text = Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole.<ref>{{cite book |last=Marshall |first=Perry |title=80/20 Sales and Marketing |publisher=Entrepreneur Press |date=2013}}</ref> |
| text = Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole.<ref>{{cite book |last=Marshall |first=Perry |title=80/20 Sales and Marketing |publisher=Entrepreneur Press |date=2013}}</ref> |
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| text = 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Burnett |first=Leo |title=100 LEO'S: 100 Years of Leo Burnett |publisher=Leo Burnett Worldwide |date=2012}}</ref> |
| text = 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Burnett |first=Leo |title=100 LEO'S: 100 Years of Leo Burnett |publisher=Leo Burnett Worldwide |date=2012}}</ref> |
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| text = No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.<ref>{{cite web |title=Why we don't sell ads |url=https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-dont-sell-ads |website=WhatsApp Blog |publisher=WhatsApp Inc. |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=2012-06-18 |author=Koum, Jan}}</ref> |
| text = No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.<ref>{{cite web |title=Why we don't sell ads |url=https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-dont-sell-ads |website=WhatsApp Blog |publisher=WhatsApp Inc. |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=2012-06-18 |author=Koum, Jan}}</ref> |
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| text = If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Ogilvy on Advertising |publisher=Crown Publishers |date=1983}}</ref> |
| text = If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Ogilvy on Advertising |publisher=Crown Publishers |date=1983}}</ref> |
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| text = Advertising tries to be a pyromaniac, igniting conflagrations of desires for instant gratification.<ref>{{cite book |last=Will |first=George F. |title=The Morning After |publisher=Free Press |date=1986}}</ref> |
| text = Advertising tries to be a pyromaniac, igniting conflagrations of desires for instant gratification.<ref>{{cite book |last=Will |first=George F. |title=The Morning After |publisher=Free Press |date=1986}}</ref> |
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| text = Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
| text = Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
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| text = If dogs don't like your dog food, the packaging doesn't matter.<ref>{{cite book |last=Denny |first=Stephen |title=Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry |publisher=Portfolio |date=2011}}</ref> |
| text = If dogs don't like your dog food, the packaging doesn't matter.<ref>{{cite book |last=Denny |first=Stephen |title=Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry |publisher=Portfolio |date=2011}}</ref> |
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| text = Every single element in an advertisement must be put there because testing has shown that it works best!<ref>{{cite book |last=Caples |first=John |title=Tested Advertising Methods |publisher=Prentice Hall |date=1997}}</ref> |
| text = Every single element in an advertisement must be put there because testing has shown that it works best!<ref>{{cite book |last=Caples |first=John |title=Tested Advertising Methods |publisher=Prentice Hall |date=1997}}</ref> |
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| text = It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
| text = It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
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| text = Dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.<ref>{{cite book |last=Burnett |first=Leo |title=100 Leo's: The Advertising Philosophy of Leo Burnett |publisher=Leo Burnett Company |date=1961}}</ref> |
| text = Dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.<ref>{{cite book |last=Burnett |first=Leo |title=100 Leo's: The Advertising Philosophy of Leo Burnett |publisher=Leo Burnett Company |date=1961}}</ref> |
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| text = Advertising brings in the customers, but it is your job to keep them buying from you.<ref>{{cite book |last=Holmes |first=Chet |title=The Ultimate Sales Machine |publisher=Portfolio |date=2007}}</ref> |
| text = Advertising brings in the customers, but it is your job to keep them buying from you.<ref>{{cite book |last=Holmes |first=Chet |title=The Ultimate Sales Machine |publisher=Portfolio |date=2007}}</ref> |
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| text = Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
| text = Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963}}</ref> |
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| text = There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.<ref>{{cite book |last=Della Femina |first=Jerry |title=From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=1970}}</ref> |
| text = There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.<ref>{{cite book |last=Della Femina |first=Jerry |title=From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=1970}}</ref> |
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| text = I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising.<ref>{{cite web |title=Art & Copy (2009) Documentary Quotes |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341071/ |website=IMDb |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=2009 |author=Pray, Doug}}</ref> |
| text = I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising.<ref>{{cite web |title=Art & Copy (2009) Documentary Quotes |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341071/ |website=IMDb |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=2009 |author=Pray, Doug}}</ref> |
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| text = In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bernbach |first=Bill |title=Bill Bernbach Said... |publisher=DDB Needham Worldwide |date=1987}}</ref> |
| text = In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bernbach |first=Bill |title=Bill Bernbach Said... |publisher=DDB Needham Worldwide |date=1987}}</ref> |
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| text = The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kotler |first=Philip |title=Marketing Management: Millennium Edition |publisher=Prentice Hall |date=1999}}</ref> |
| text = The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kotler |first=Philip |title=Marketing Management: Millennium Edition |publisher=Prentice Hall |date=1999}}</ref> |
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| text = Content is king, but engagement is queen, and the lady rules the house!<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Mari |title=The New Relationship Marketing |publisher=Wiley |date=2011}}</ref> |
| text = Content is king, but engagement is queen, and the lady rules the house!<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Mari |title=The New Relationship Marketing |publisher=Wiley |date=2011}}</ref> |
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| text = A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is — it is what consumers tell each other it is.<ref>{{cite news |title=Marketing in the Age of Social Media |url=https://hbr.org/2011/12/marketing-is-dead |work=Harvard Business Review |date=December 2011 |access-date=December 19, 2025 |author=Scott Cook}}</ref> |
| text = A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is — it is what consumers tell each other it is.<ref>{{cite news |title=Marketing in the Age of Social Media |url=https://hbr.org/2011/12/marketing-is-dead |work=Harvard Business Review |date=December 2011 |access-date=December 19, 2025 |author=Scott Cook}}</ref> |
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| text = The secret to marketing success is no secret at all: Word of mouth is all that matters.<ref>{{cite web |title=Word of mouth is all that matters |url=https://seths.blog/2003/01/word_of_mouth_i/ |website=Seth's Blog |publisher=Seth Godin |access-date=December 19, 2025 |date=January 29, 2003 |author=Seth Godin}}</ref> |
| text = The secret to marketing success is no secret at all: Word of mouth is all that matters.<ref>{{cite web |title=Word of mouth is all that matters |url=https://seths.blog/2003/01/word_of_mouth_i/ |website=Seth's Blog |publisher=Seth Godin |access-date=December 19, 2025 |date=January 29, 2003 |author=Seth Godin}}</ref> |
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| text = There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.<ref>{{cite book |last=Koslow |first=Brian |title=365 Ways to Market Your Business |publisher=Dutton |date=1998}}</ref> |
| text = There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.<ref>{{cite book |last=Koslow |first=Brian |title=365 Ways to Market Your Business |publisher=Dutton |date=1998}}</ref> |
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Advertising is the definitive engine of commercial visibility, functioning as the vital communication link between enterprise and consumer. More than mere promotion, effective advertising requires a sophisticated balance of creative rigor and strategic intent to penetrate the public consciousness. This resource organizes the fundamental philosophies of advertising into a coherent framework, tracing its trajectory from a basic economic necessity to a high-art form of persuasion and reputation management.
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The economic imperative of visibility
Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.[1]
— Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.[2]
— Steuart Henderson Britt, Professor of Marketing
In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.[3]
— Bruce Barton, Co-founder of BBDO
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'[4]
— Jef I. Richards, Professor of Advertising
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The strategic art of persuasion
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.[5]
— William Bernbach, Co-founder of DDB
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.[6]
— David Ogilvy, Founder of Ogilvy & Mather
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.[7]
— Leo Burnett, Founder of Leo Burnett Worldwide
An ad is finished only when you no longer can find a single element to remove.[8]
— Robert Fleege, Creative Director
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.[9]
— David Ogilvy, Founder of Ogilvy & Mather
An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.[10]
— Lee Clow, Chairman of TBWA\Media Arts Lab
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.[11]
— Leo Burnett, Founder of Leo Burnett Worldwide
People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull...When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.[12]
— David Ogilvy, Founder of Ogilvy & Mather
Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes, it's an ad.[13]
— Howard Gossage, Advertising Executive
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.[14]
— Leo Burnett, Founder of Leo Burnett Worldwide
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The psychology of audience engagement
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.[15]
— Seth Godin, Author and Marketing Executive
Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.[16]
— David Ogilvy, Founder of Ogilvy & Mather
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be dismissed.[17]
— Maurice Saatchi, Co-founder of Saatchi & Saatchi
Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole.[18]
— Perry Marshall, Author
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.[19]
— Leo Burnett, Founder of Leo Burnett Worldwide
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.[20]
— Jan Koum, Co-founder of WhatsApp
If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.[21]
— David Ogilvy, Founder of Ogilvy & Mather
Advertising tries to be a pyromaniac, igniting conflagrations of desires for instant gratification.[22]
— George Will, The Washington Post
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.[23]
— David Ogilvy, Founder of Ogilvy & Mather
If dogs don't like your dog food, the packaging doesn't matter.[24]
— Stephen Denny, Business Strategist
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Ethics, testing, and professional rigor
Every single element in an advertisement must be put there because testing has shown that it works best![25]
— John Caples, Vice President of BBDO
It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.[26]
— David Ogilvy, Founder of Ogilvy & Mather
Dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.[27]
— Leo Burnett, Founder of Leo Burnett Worldwide
Advertising brings in the customers, but it is your job to keep them buying from you.[28]
— Chet Holmes, Business Growth Strategist
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.[29]
— David Ogilvy, Founder of Ogilvy & Mather
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.[30]
— Jerry Della Femina, Chairman of Della Femina Travisano & Partners
I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising.[31]
— Lee Clow, Chairman of TBWA\Media Arts Lab
In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.[32]
— William Bernbach, Co-founder of DDB
The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.[33]
— Philip Kotler, Professor of International Marketing
Content is king, but engagement is queen, and the lady rules the house![34]
— Mari Smith, Social Media Strategist
A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is — it is what consumers tell each other it is.[35]
— Scott Cook, Co-founder of Intuit
The secret to marketing success is no secret at all: Word of mouth is all that matters.[36]
— Seth Godin, Author and Marketing Executive
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.[37]
— Brian Koslow, Author
References
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- ↑ Shapiro, Fred R. (2006). The Yale Book of Quotations. Yale University Press.
- ↑ Barton, Bruce (1955). "Bruce Barton Classic Quotations" (PDF). The Superlist. Christer Sundqvist. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
- ↑ Jef I. Richards (2002). "Refining the Definition of Advertising". Journal of Advertising. American Academy of Advertising.
- ↑ "The Creative Revolutionist". The New York Times. October 3, 1982. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
- ↑ Ogilvy, David (1963). Confessions of an Advertising Man. Atheneum.
- ↑ "The Leo Burnett Story". Leo Burnett Worldwide. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
- ↑ Baker, Stephen (1965). The Art of Writing Advertising. Benjamin Company.
- ↑ Ogilvy, David (1963). Confessions of an Advertising Man. Atheneum.
- ↑ Fast Company Staff (2012-08-28). "The Creative Mind of Lee Clow". Fast Company. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
- ↑ Burnett, Leo (1961). 100 Leo's: The Advertising Philosophy of Leo Burnett. Leo Burnett Company.
- ↑ Ogilvy, David (1963). Confessions of an Advertising Man. Atheneum.
- ↑ Gossage, Howard (1995). The Book of Gossage. Copy Workshop.
- ↑ Burnett, Leo (1961). Communications of an Advertising Man. Privately printed.
- ↑ Godin, Seth (2008). Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. Portfolio/Penguin.
- ↑ Ogilvy, David (1963). Confessions of an Advertising Man. Atheneum.
- ↑ Fallon, Ivan (1988). The Brothers: The Rise and Rise of Saatchi & Saatchi. Hutchinson.
- ↑ Marshall, Perry (2013). 80/20 Sales and Marketing. Entrepreneur Press.
- ↑ Burnett, Leo (2012). 100 LEO'S: 100 Years of Leo Burnett. Leo Burnett Worldwide.
- ↑ Koum, Jan (2012-06-18). "Why we don't sell ads". WhatsApp Blog. WhatsApp Inc. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
- ↑ Ogilvy, David (1983). Ogilvy on Advertising. Crown Publishers.
- ↑ Will, George F. (1986). The Morning After. Free Press.
- ↑ Ogilvy, David (1963). Confessions of an Advertising Man. Atheneum.
- ↑ Denny, Stephen (2011). Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry. Portfolio.
- ↑ Caples, John (1997). Tested Advertising Methods. Prentice Hall.
- ↑ Ogilvy, David (1963). Confessions of an Advertising Man. Atheneum.
- ↑ Burnett, Leo (1961). 100 Leo's: The Advertising Philosophy of Leo Burnett. Leo Burnett Company.
- ↑ Holmes, Chet (2007). The Ultimate Sales Machine. Portfolio.
- ↑ Ogilvy, David (1963). Confessions of an Advertising Man. Atheneum.
- ↑ Della Femina, Jerry (1970). From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor. Simon & Schuster.
- ↑ Pray, Doug (2009). "Art & Copy (2009) Documentary Quotes". IMDb. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
- ↑ Bernbach, Bill (1987). Bill Bernbach Said... DDB Needham Worldwide.
- ↑ Kotler, Philip (1999). Marketing Management: Millennium Edition. Prentice Hall.
- ↑ Smith, Mari (2011). The New Relationship Marketing. Wiley.
- ↑ Scott Cook (December 2011). "Marketing in the Age of Social Media". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
- ↑ Seth Godin (January 29, 2003). "Word of mouth is all that matters". Seth's Blog. Seth Godin. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
- ↑ Koslow, Brian (1998). 365 Ways to Market Your Business. Dutton.