The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not the great book or epic play, as once was the case, that will shape that opinion, but those who understand mass media and the techniques of mass persuasion...We must not just believe in what we sell. We must sell what we believe in. And we must pour a vast energy into those causes.
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. - William Bernbach
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
- William Bernbach
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things … - William Bernbach
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things …
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. - William Bernbach
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. - William Bernbach
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal. - William Bernbach
In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.
If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody agai… - William Bernbach
If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody agai…
Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ. - William Bernbach
Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them. - William Bernbach
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it. - William Bernbach
It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.
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