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"Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before."
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"Just advertising departments with legs and high heels."

"There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone."

"I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range."

"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."

"A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper."

"Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry."

"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."

"Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is."
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"There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past."


"You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen."


"In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive."


"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
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