“When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't get a handful of mud either.”
As quoted in Readers Digest January 1985
Leo Burnett was an American advertising executive and the founder of Leo Burnett Company, Inc. He was responsible for creating some of advertising's most well-known characters and campaigns of the 20th century, including Tony the Tiger, the Marlboro Man, the Maytag Repairman, United's "Fly the Friendly Skies", and Allstate's "Good Hands", and for garnering relationships with multinational clients such as McDonald's, Hallmark and Coca-Cola. In 1999, Burnett was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
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“When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't get a handful of mud either.”
As quoted in Readers Digest January 1985
“Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.”
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“I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me.”
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Source: Communications of an Advertising Man (1961), p. 81
As quoted in Street-Smart Advertising: How to Win the Battle of the Buzz (2006) by Margo Berman, p. 95
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“Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.”
Communications of an Advertising Man (1961)