The Majority Of Business Men Are Not

Consumers Do Not Buy Products. They Buy Product Benefits.

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.

Most Agencies Run Scared, Most Of The Time. . . .frightened People Are Powerless To Produce Good Advertising. . . . If I Were Aclient, I Would Do Everything In My Power To Emancipate My Agencies From Fear, Even To The Extent Of Giving Them Long-term Contracts.

It Takes Uncommon Guts To Stick To One Style In The Face Of All The Pressures To 'come Up With Something New' Every Six Months. It Is Tragically Easy To Be Stampeded Into Change. But Golden Rewards Await The Advertiser Who Has The Brains To Create A Coherent Image, And The Stability To Stick With It Over A Long Period.

I Once Used The Word Obsolete In A Headline, Only To Discover That 43 Per Cent Of Housewives Had No Idea What It Meant. In Another Headline, I Used The Word Ineffable, Only To Discover That I Didn't Know What It Meant Myself.