To Advertisers: "do Not Compete With Your

You Will Never Win Fame And Fortune Unless You Invent Big Ideas.

It Is Important To Admit Your Mistakes, And To Do So Before You Are Charged With Them. Many Clients Are Surrounded By Buckpassers Who Make A Fine Art Of Blaming The Agency For Their Own Failures. I Seize The Earliest Opportunity To Assume The Blame.

It Has Been Found That The Less An Advertisement Looks Like An Advertisement And The More It Looks Like An Editorial, The More Readers Stop, Look, And Read.

I Was Doing A Campaign Once For A Manufacturer, And I Couldn't Think Of An Ideas, And I Was Kind Of Desperate About It. The Night Before I Had To Show Something To My Client I Had A Dream, An Interesting Dream. I Woke Up And For Once In My Life I Wrote It Down And Went Back To Sleep Next Morning I Went To The Office And Had That Dream Out Into A Tv Commercial Which Is Still Running Thirty Years After And Which Has Made That Particular Product The Leader In Its Field.

I Avoid Clients For Whom Advertising Is Only A Marginal Factor In Their Marketing Mix. They Have An Awkward Tendency To Raid Their Advertising Appropriations Whenever They Need Cash For Other Purposes.