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Leo Burnett

21 October 1891-7 June 1971

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Advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

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Advertising is saying 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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Advertising is achieved best through believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

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Advertising is always only temporarily successful. There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

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Advertising's work is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

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

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Sales is not about telling people how good you make the goods, but rather, how good your goods make them.