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It Has Taken More Than A Hundred Scientists Two Years To Find Out How To Make The Product In Question; I Have Been Given Thirty Days To Create Its Personality And Plan Its Launching. If I Do My Job Well, I Shall Contribute As Much As The Hundred Scientists To The Success Of This Product.

Most Headlines Are Set Too Big To Be Legible In The Magazines Or Newspaper. Never Approve A Layout Until You Have Seen It Pasted Into The Magazine Or Newspaper For Which It Was Destined. If You Pin Up The Layouts On A Bulletin Board And Appraise Them From Fifteen Feet, You Will Produce Posters.

Training Should Not Be Confined To Trainees. It Should Be A Continuous Process, And Should Include The Entire Professional Staff Of The Agency. The More Our People Learn, The More Useful They Can Be To Our Clients.

Write The Way You Talk. Naturally.

I Had A Friend Who Was The King's Surgeon In England. One Day I Asked Him What Makes A Great Surgeon. He Replied, "what Distinguishes A Great Surgeon Is His Knowledge. He Knows More Than Other Surgeons. During An Operation He Finds Something Which He Wasn't Expecting, Recognizes It And Knows What To Do About It." It's The Same Thing With Advertising People. The Good Ones Know More. How Do You Get To Know More? By Reading Books About Advertising. By Picking The Brains Of People Who Know More Than You Do. From The Magic Lanterns. And From Experience.