3 December 2020 Leo Burnett 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.
3 December 2020 Leo Burnett The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its ‘product’ cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
3 December 2020 Leo Burnett Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
3 December 2020 Leo Burnett A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain’t got nothin’.
3 December 2020 Leo Burnett If you don’t get noticed, you don’t have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.
3 December 2020 Leo Burnett 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.