Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
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.
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
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.
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
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.
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.