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I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution.

~George Lois

Topics: About Advertising Bad Bill Bob Certainly Creative Fart Guys How Led Like Me Old Other Revolution Sucks Talking Three Today True Two

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If somebody says to you, 'MTV,' you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: 'I want my MTV.' That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.

~George Lois

Topics: Advertising Always Epitome Great Jagger Me Mick Jagger Phone Says Screaming Somebody Think Want You Mtv

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All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication courses, marketing courses, advertising courses, and courses basically teach advertising as a science, and advertising is so far from a science it isn't even funny. Advertising is an art.

~George Lois

Topics: Advertising Agencies Art Basically Communication Courses Even Far Funny Important Important People Marketing People Run Science Taken Teach Who

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With the way I worked, a client can give me everything they know about something, and then I go away and come back with advertising that knocks them out of their chair. They finally understand what kind of a company they are.

~George Lois

Topics: About Advertising Away Back Chair Client Come Company Everything Finally Give Give Me Go Go Away Kind Knocks Know Me Out Something Them Then Understand Way Worked

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You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.

~George Lois

Topics: About Advertising After Care Demographics Going Great Mediocre Only Test Understand Who You

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When I lecture kids, I say, 'You've got to be ambitious by the advertising' - ambitious. You've got to say, 'See, this product? Maybe I can change the world with this product.' They look at me like I'm nuts, but that's what you can do.

~George Lois

Topics: Advertising Ambitious Change Change The World Got Kids Lecture Like Look Maybe Me Nuts Product Say See World You I Can

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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

~George Orwell

Topics: Advertising Bucket Inside Rattling Stick

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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

~George Santayana

Topics: Advertising Appear Argument Better Function Make Modern Substitute Worse

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I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

~George Stephen

Topics: Advertising Business Depend Developing Devoted Effort Family Few Fiction Income Lot My Time Past Past Few Years Point Support Time Where Writing Years I Can

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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

~George Will

Topics: Advertising Becomes Idiom Language Nation Noise Normal Printed

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