w/c -7th Oct 2012
"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising"
Mark Twain, A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
w/c - 15th October 2012
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people"
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
w/c - 22nd Oct 2012
"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' "
Jef I. Richards
w/c 5th Nov 2012
"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master"
Milton Glaser - (June 26 1929 - )
American graphic designer, best known for the 'I love NY' logo, his Bob Dylan poster and the DC bullet logo used by DC Comics.
w/c 14th Jan 2013
"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."
Carol Burnett (1936 - )
Actress & Comedienne
w/c 21st Jan 2013
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London (1876 - 1916)
Author, Journalist and Activist
w/c 28th Jan 2013
"Vigorous writing is concise."
William Strunk Jr - Author of The Elements of Style, 1919
w/c 4th Feb 2013
"Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time."
Anonymous
w/c 11th Feb 2013
“If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything.
You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally,
without screaming or without tricks.”
Leo Burnett (Pioneer American advertising Executive, 1891-1971)
w/c 18th Feb 2013
"A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working."
Frank Lloyd Wright (US Architect, 1869 - 1959)
w/c 25th Feb 2013
"If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some against you.
If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for you."
William Bernbach Advertising Legend (August 13, 1911 - October 2, 1982)
w/c 4th Mar 2013
"A principle is not a principle until it costs you something."
William Bernbach Advertising Legend (August 13, 1911 - October 2, 1982)
w/c 11th Mar 2013
"It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours."
Sam Ewing Baseball player & humourist (1949 - )
w/c 18th Mar 2013
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
Albert Einstein (attributed) - (1879 - 1955)
w/c 25th Mar 2013
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
w/c 1st April 2013
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
w/c 8th April 2013
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
Mark Twain - US humorist, novelist, short story author & wit (1835 - 1910)
w/c 15th April 2013
"Where facts are few, experts are many."
Donald R. Gannon - American Psychologist
w/c 22nd April 2013
'For Marlon'
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
Old Balkan Proverb
w/c 29th April 2013
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
w/c 13th May 2013
"The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning and I, I live by the river"
w/c 20th May 2013
"It's not bragging if you can back it up."
Muhammad Ali - First and OnlyThree Times World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
(1942 - )
w/c 27th May 2013
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau - Author (1817-1862)
w/c 3rd June 2013
"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."
Mark Twain - US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
w/c 10th June 2013
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 - June 8, 1970)
American psychologist best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
w/c 17th June 2013
"Never, never, never give up."
Winston Churchill (Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965)
Statesmen and Wartime Leader
w/c 24th June 2013
"There is only one boss. The customer.
And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down,
simply by spending his money somewhere else."
Sam Walton (March 29, 1918 - April 6, 1992)
Wal-Mart Founder
w/c 1st July 2013
"I'll let the racket do the talking."
John McEnroe (February 16, 1959 - )
Tennis Player
w/c 8th July 2013
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government
those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826 )
American President
w/c 15 July 2013
"Understanding is a two-way street."
Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11 1884 - November 7 1962)
American First Lady
w/c 22nd July 2013
"It is always the simple that produces the marvellous."
Amelia Barr - British Novelist (1831 - 1919)
w/c 29th July 2013
"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
Henry David Thoreau - Author (1817-1862)
w/c 5th August 2013
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."
Neil Armstrong (August 5th 1930 - August 25th 2012) - Astronaut, First Man on the Moon.
w/c 12th August 2013
"Fun is good."
Theodor Seuss Geisel a.k.a. Dr Seuss - (March 2 1904- Sept 24 1991)
Poet, Writer and Illustrator of Children's books
w/c 19th August 2013
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
Abraham Lincoln - American President ( Feb 12 1809 - April 15 1865)
w/c 26th Aug 2013
"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."
Robert A. Heinlein - SciFi Writer (July 7, 1907- May 8, 1988 )
w/c 2nd Sept 2013
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
Nelson Mandela ( 18 July 1918 - )
Anti apartheid revolutionary, father of the Rainbow Nation and first black President of South Africa
w/c 9th sept 2013
"While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth,
never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising."
Jef I Richards
Advertising Guru, Professor of Advertising, Public Relations & Retailing at Michigan State University.
w/c 16th Sept 2013
"When everything seems to be going against you,
remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947)
American Businessman and Founder of Ford Motor Company
w/c 23rd Sept 2013
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
Lee Iacocca - October 15, 1924
American businessman responsible for engineering the Ford Mustang and the revival of the Chrysler Corporation in the 1980s.
w/c 30th sept 2013
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.
But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA - January 8, 1942
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, University of Cambridge
w/c 7th Oct 2013
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947)
American Businessman and Founder of the Ford Motor Company
w/c 14th Oct 2013
“I’m often asked how I got into the business. I didn’t.
The business got into me.”
Leo Burnett (Pioneer American advertising Executive, 1891-1971)
w/c 21st Oct 2013
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
Nathaniel Hawthorne (American Novelist , July 4 1804 - May 19 1864 )
w/c 28th Oct 2013
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
Plato (Greek Philosopher, 427 BC - 347 BC)
w/c 4th Nov 2013
"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."
Nicholas M. Butler (American Philosopher, April 2 1862 -December 7 1947)
w/c 11th Nov 2013
"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it."
Sam Ewing Baseball player & humourist (1949 - )
w/c 18th Nov 2013
"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd."
Edward de Bono - Maltese physician, author, inventor and originator of the term 'lateral thinking'.
( May 19, 1933 -)
w/c 25th November 2013
"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman."
David M. Ogilvy - Advertising Executive widely regarded as the 'Father of Advertising'
(June 23, 1911 - July 21, 1999)
w/c 2nd Dec 2013
"Everything you can imagine is real."
Pablo Picasso - Spanish Cubist painter; father of modern art
(1881 - 1973)
w/c 9th Dec 2013
"It always seems impossible until its done."
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, philanthropist and first black President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
(July 18 1918 - Dec 5 2013)
RIP
w/c 16th Dec 2013
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
Bill Gates - business Magnate, investor, programmer, inventor, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft
(October 28 1955 - )
w/c 23rd Dec 2013
"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."
Phyllis Diller - American Comedienne (July 17, 1917 - August 20, 2012 )
w/c 30th Dec 2013
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
Bill Vaughan - American Journalist (October 8, 1915 - February 25, 1977)
