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Leo Burnett

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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.


— Leo Burnett


#any #bad #fool #genius #good

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.


— Leo Burnett


#big #clients #come #creative #executives

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.


— Leo Burnett


#advertising #believable #greatest #greatest thing #in my opinion

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.


— Leo Burnett


#business #explaining #purpose #renders #service

What helps people, helps business.


— Leo Burnett


#business #helps #people

A good ad which is not run never produces sales.


— Leo Burnett


#good #never #produces #run #sales

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.


— Leo Burnett


#advertising #business #heart #ink #interpret

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


— Leo Burnett


#get #got #here #how #people

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.


— Leo Burnett


#anyone #around #estimate #fooled #inaccurate

Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.


— Leo Burnett


#fun #gets #nowhere #obnoxious #sell






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Did you know about Leo Burnett?

On June 7 1971 at the age of 79 he died of a heart attack at his family farm in Lake Zurich Illinois. In the company layoffs are very rare. This is evident on such campaigns as Jolly Green Giant Tony the Tiger Pillsbury Doughboy and more famously the Marlboro Man.

Leo Burnett (October 21 1891 – June 7 1971) was an advertising executive and was among the most 'creative' men in the advertising business. Burnett was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. The 19th Century was dominated by the copy-heavy ads with lengthy product descriptions and selling arguments however he developed fresh simple icons that came to symbolize easy-to-understand product benefits for the 20th-century consumer.

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