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William Bernbach

"Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?"

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"Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?"

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"Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message."
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