40 Advertising Quotes About Honesty, Content, and Creativity

40 Advertising Quotes About Honesty, Content, and Creativity40 Advertising Quotes About Honesty, Content, and CreativityIt is tempting to think that old quotes from advertising industry giants like Bill Bernbach or David Oglivy may no longer be of use in the age of social media and online advertising. But a glance at some of their more famous sayings quickly reveals that while the medium has changed, the power of the message remains. Advertising Quotes onHonesty 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 geschftsleben faster. -Jerry Della Femina The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. -Bill Bernbach Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes. -Seth Godin 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. -Leo Burnett Telling lies does not work in advert ising. -Tim Bell Thats the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts. - Samuel Goldwyn Our job is to bring the dead facts to life. -Bill Bernbach The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. -Leo Burnett The worst thing for a brand is to have a kind of false part of who they are exposed out there. -Lee Clow Certainly, it landseems true enough that theres a good deal of irony in the world ... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, theres obviously a lot of deception. -Kenneth Koch Never write an advertisement which you wouldnt want your own family to read. You wouldnt tell lies to your own wife. Dont tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out. -David Ogilvy The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. -Thomas Jefferson Advertising Quotes on Content What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. -David Ogilvy A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. -David Ogilvy Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. -Leo Burnett We want consumers to say, Thats a hell of a product instead of, Thats a hell of an ad. -Leo Burnett The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. -David Ogilvy What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it. -David Ogilvy Lets say you have $1 million tied up in your little company and suddenly your advertising isnt working and sales are going down. And everything depends on it. Your future depends on it, your familys future depends on it, other peoples families depend on it. Now, what do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the goddamned sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?-Rosser Reeves Dont tell me how good you make it tell me how good i t makes me when I use it. -Leo Burnett An ad is finished only when you no longer can find a single element to remove. -Robert Fleege On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy. -David Ogilvy If you are writing about baloney, dont try and make it Cornish hen, because thats the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney. -Leo Burnett If youre trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language in which they think. -David Ogilvy I dont know how to speak to everybody, only to somebody. -Howard Gossage You have to be daring and make something that doesnt look like anybody else. -Lee Clow It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea. -David Ogilvy Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people -William Butler Yeats Advertising Quotes on Creativity Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret ... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper, and ink. -Leo Burnett Creativity is like washing a pig. Its messy. It has no rules. No clear beginning, middle or end. Its kind of a pain in the ass, and when youre done, youre not sure if the pig is really clean or even why you were washing a pig in the first place. -Luke Sullivan Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires. -George Lois Creativity and innovation are about finding unexpected solutions to obvious problems, or finding obvious solutions to unexpected problems. -Rei Inamoto If it doesnt sell, it isnt creative. -David Ogilvy There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately, they talk the best game. They know all the rules ... but theres one little rub. They forget that advertising is persuasion, and persuasion is not a science, but an art. Advertising is the art of persuasion.-William Bernbach I dont know the rules of grammar ... If youre trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. -David Ogilvy An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. -Bill Bernbach To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas. -Leo Burnett In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. -David Ogilvy Ive 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 Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea wi ll be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. -David Ogilvy