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William Bernbach [1911-1982] American

William "Bill" Bernbach was an American advertising creative director. He was one of the three founders in 1949 of the international advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach.

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Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.		101
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.	Work	102
In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.		103
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.	Communication	104
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.	Best, Business	105
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.	Art, Science	106
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.	Good	107
You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen.		108
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.		109
Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.		110
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.		111
I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.	Science	112
Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.		113
A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.		114
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.		115
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.		116
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.		117
Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.		118
Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.		119
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.		120
No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.		121
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.		122
We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.		123
Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?		124
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.		125

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