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| text = Every single element in an advertisement – headline, subhead, photo, and copy – must be put there not because it looks good, not because it sounds good, but because testing has shown that it works best!<ref>{{cite book |last=Caples |first=John |title=Tested Advertising Methods |publisher=Prentice Hall |date=1997 |isbn=978-0130933607}}</ref>
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| text = An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Creative Mind of Lee Clow |url=https://www.fastcompany.com |website=Fast Company |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=2012 |author=Fast Company Staff}}</ref>
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| text = Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963 |page=31 |isbn=978-0860010180}}</ref>
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| text = In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bruce Barton Classic Quotations |url=http://www.ravintokirja.fi/T_Superlist.pdf |website=The Superlist |publisher=Christer Sundqvist |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=1955 |author=Barton, Bruce}}</ref>
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| text = I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising.<ref>{{cite web |title=Art & Copy (2009) Documentary Quotes |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341071/ |website=IMDb |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=2009 |author=Pray, Doug}}</ref>
| author = Lee Clow, Art & Copy {{Lee Clow/attribution}}
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| text = People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull...When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ogilvy |first=David |title=Confessions of an Advertising Man |publisher=Atheneum |date=1963 |page=110}}</ref>
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| text = 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Burnett |first=Leo |title=100 LEO'S: 100 Years of Leo Burnett |publisher=Leo Burnett Worldwide |date=2012}}</ref>
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| text = No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.<ref>{{cite web |title=Why we don't sell ads |url=https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-dont-sell-ads |website=WhatsApp Blog |publisher=WhatsApp Inc. |access-date=2025-12-19 |date=2012-06-18 |author=Koum, Jan}}</ref>
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| text = 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 business faster.<ref>{{cite book |last=Della Femina |first=Jerry |title=From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=1970 |isbn=978-0671205364}}</ref>
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| text = Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes, it's an ad.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gossage |first=Howard |title=The Book of Gossage |publisher=Copy Workshop |date=1995 |isbn=978-1887229210}}</ref>
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| text = In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bernbach |first=Bill |title=Bill Bernbach Said... |publisher=DDB Needham Worldwide |date=1987}}</ref>
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| text = The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kotler |first=Philip |title=Marketing Management: Millennium Edition |publisher=Prentice Hall |date=1999 |isbn=9780130122179 |page=433}}</ref>
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| text = Advertising tries to be a pyromaniac, igniting conflagrations of desires for instant gratification.<ref>{{cite book |last=Will |first=George F. |title=The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986 |publisher=Free Press |date=1986 |isbn=9780029344506 |chapter=The Madison Legacy}}</ref>
| author = George Will, [[The Washington Post]] {{George Will/attribution}}
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