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"Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'"
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

"If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all."

"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."
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