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李奥·贝纳:其实是广告选择了我

 

  独身创业
  李奥·贝纳出生于1889年,童年是在美国的一座小城度过的。中学毕业后,李奥·贝纳 便离家远去,来到著名的密歇根大学学习新闻学。毕业后,他来到芝加哥附近的匹奥瑞亚市的<匹奥瑞亚日报>当记者,后来又到了底特律,进入卡迪 拉克汽车公司编辑公司杂志,以后又逐步向广告业延伸,并认识了不少当时著名的广告人,从他们那里学到了许多有益的东西。为了在事业上更上一层楼,他来到了 美国著名的大都市芝加哥寻求新的发展天地。他进入了一家享有盛名的广告公司磨练了6年之后,1935年8月,李奥·贝纳走上了独自创业的道路,成立了以自 己姓名注册的广告公司。

  芝加哥广告的领导者
  念大学时,李奥·贝纳半工半读替一家百货公司写告示牌,毕业之后,他当皮利亚日报的记者,不久,他进入卡迪拉克汽车公司的广告部门,后来又转到印第安那普利斯的一家广告公司。
  十年之后,他到艾温·华赛尔当文案主管,并于1935年在芝加哥成立他自己的广告公司。但是,到他60岁时,他的事业才真的大步扩展,就好象突然点燃了他的发射器,到他死时,即20年之后,他的广告公司几乎可以说是世界第一大。
  他是芝加哥广告的领导者(广告学派这个名词就是他发明的)下面是他自己讲的故事:
  “我在密西根镇长大,在炎夏的夜晚,你可以听到玉米生长的声音。慢慢地,我从芝加哥的外围搬进它的核心,当我到达那里时已40岁了。但我还是习惯我平常的生活方式。
  在我老家居民的心目中,芝加哥就象是罗马——向往它,觉得它是高贵却也有丑陋的一面。对他们来讲,纽约是神秘的,但芝加哥却非常真实。每个人都有个查理叔叔或玛珀姑姑住在那里,不是在格林·爱伦,就是其他地方。
  不管喜欢与否,芝加哥是他们“家族”的一部分,而不是一个离家而有成就的儿子。因此,我住的小镇对芝加哥有非常独特的感情,当我们这些土包子从玉米带(即美国中西部)各角落来聚集在一起时,我们彼此熟悉,并感觉是在家。
  我想我的意思是芝加哥是中西部的心脏、灵魂、精髓与核心。这里广告人的眼里充满了乡村平原的观点与价值。在任何一方面,我并不想说芝加哥比纽约好,但我们从乡下来,有着松散的四肢和宽阔的视野,使我们创造出来的广告对大部分美国人来说都是非常平实的,就是这样。
  我觉得我们芝加哥的广告人都勤奋工作,我常想象芝加哥那些文案人员在握笔前吐口口水在掌中那种兢兢业业的情形。我喜欢想我们广告中的语言包含着芝加哥的气息并经过密西根湖的洗礼。
  我觉得芝加哥的广告吸取了美国传统中丰富的养份,使它在锐利生动的语言中复活、不朽。当他写“不”(Ain’t)时就是“不”,一点都不虚假,记得魏尔·罗吉斯说过:“有许多人虽然嘴上说Ain’t(注:美国较低教育水准人的用语)……但他们还是没饭吃。”

  早上起来含什么
  李奥·贝纳对创作过程的看法可由他讲过的话总结为下面三条:
  1、“每一样产品本身都具有它与生俱来带有戏剧性意味的故事,我们的第一件工作是去发掘它,并用它来赚钱。”
  2、“当你想摘星星,你不见得可以拿到一个,但也不致抓到一手的泥巴。”
  3、“将你自己埋入那个主题,工作象个疯子,喜欢、尊重并服从你的灵感。”
  他对文案人员和设计指导所定的标准非常高,并经由创意会议来执行。他曾说过,参加这种会议是非常难受而可怕的,但在晚年他写道:“回想我们过去的伟大作品,很少是在甜蜜、轻松、热情的气氛中创造出来的,反而是在很大压力和复杂的争论中产生的。”
  他不觉得创新就是好,他常引用他一位旧老板的话说:“如果你只为了标新立异而标新立异,早上醒来嘴里含着袜子就可以了。”
   他习惯让几个小组来比赛争取一个案子,而不是一开始就指定某一小组来做,结果是:“有许多人放弃离开了。”毫无疑问地,李奥·贝纳最伟大的成就是替万宝 路香烟作的广告,它使得一个默默无名的品牌,成为世界上销售最大的香烟,这个广告活动还在继续着,从他创造它一直到现在。
  他最感兴趣的是印刷媒体,他从没写过需要直接反应的广告,因此,他从不需要放很多文字在他的稿子里,他做的稿子大部分就象一个缩小的海报。
   他喜欢很土的方言,他用一个资料夹整理这些片语,上面标着”玉米语言”:“我并不是把那些俚语、插科打诨的土语一成不变地使用,而是那些字、片语和同义 字可传达一种非常乡土、平实而亲切的感觉。有时,这些片语是在报纸或谈话中偶然碰到的,我马上就把它们记入资料夹中,这些片语可能要到一年后才出现在一个 广告中。”
  当他看到他手下有人用竞争厂牌的产品时,他便写下面的便条给他:“你们都很清楚,你和我的收入,百分之百都来自我们客户的销售。 “在广告这行的36年当中,我很单纯地遵守这个原则,如果我们不能相信这个商品而使用它,我们对别人做广告时便不能完全诚实。“我承认每个人都有他不自觉 的反叛独立性,没有谁可以强迫谁,可是我经常觉得,还有更好更有价值的方法,不必排斥或蔑视付我薪水人的产品。“我想我的感觉可以由另一家广告公司副总裁 的话作结论:当他被问到为什么他抽他们客户那种不流行的香烟,他说:‘我的看法是没有什么味道比面包和奶油(指饭碗)还重要的。’”李奥·贝纳对一些百万 广告公司业绩成长速度超过他们服务品质的趋势感到非常痛心。他死前不久,曾对他的部下说:
  “把持原则,有一天若我偏离了他,你也可以将我的名字拿掉。”
  “但是让我告诉你,当我主动要求你将我的名字从门上拿走时,可能是你花较多的时间在赚钱而不是在做广告的那一天,那时你已变成对公司大小比做好工作更有兴趣的人。”
  创造万宝路牛仔形象
  提起万宝路牌香烟,人们都不会觉得陌生。因为它是世界卷烟王国中无可争辩的”龙头老大”,其销售量约占全美卷烟销售总量的四分之一。有人估计,仅是万宝路这个商标,价值就在300亿美元以上。
   不过,可能许多人不知道,大名鼎鼎、充满男子汉气概的万宝路,当年却是专为女士生产的香烟。在最初问世的30年。正是凭借着李奥·贝纳的一个高明的广告 策划,才使得已经山穷水尽的万宝路转危为安,步步发展,成为世界最著名的香烟品牌。万宝路诞生于1924年,至今已有80多年的历史。当初,生产它的厂家 –美国菲利普·莫里斯公司,将它设计为专供女士享用的香烟,然而,万宝路问世之后,境况却十分凄凉,销售业绩始终平平。
  美国菲利普·莫里斯公 司在40年代初期不得不停止生产这一牌号的卷烟。第二次世界大战结束之后,一筹莫展的美国菲利普·莫里斯公司只得向李奥·贝纳求助。面对挑战,他经过细心 的研究,发现万宝路所存在的不利条件有很多,如果能为它注入新鲜血液,起死回生并不是没有可能,同时,他还了解到人们对于过滤嘴香烟有一种感觉,认为它更 适合女子,这对于万宝路十分不利,因为在女子香烟市场上,万宝路已经栽了大跟头,那么,万宝路的出路在哪里啊!经过深思熟虑,他向美国菲利普·莫里斯公司 提出,让我们忘记那个带胭粉气的香烟,用同一万宝路牌子创出一个文明世界的具有男子汉气概的香烟来,最后在双方的精心筹划下,一套完整的方案形成了。万宝 路保持原有的配方以一个全新的形象投入宣传。并决定使用牛仔充当万宝路香烟广告的主角。
  1954年,全新的万宝路香烟广告正式露面,一下子便 打动了无数美国人的心。一时间,人们争相购买原本不屑以顾的万宝路牌香烟,想借此加入真正男子汉的行列。在短短一年时间内,万宝路的销售量竟然奇迹般的提 高了整整三倍,成为全美十种销售量最大的香烟之一。一次他在谈到自己的创作方式时提到”我的方法就是把自己浸透在商品之中。我深信,我应该去面对实际,对 我要卖给他商品的人们,做极有深度的访问,我设法在心中把他们是哪一类人勾勒出一个轮廓–他们怎样使用这种商品,以及这种商品是什么–虽然他们不告诉你这 么多,但你一定要发现并启发他们购买某种东西或者对某一类事情产生兴趣的动机。”
  李奥·贝纳广告公司与生产万宝路的美国菲利普·莫里斯公司和 睦相处近四十年,从未出现过危机,这种合作关系是如此的融洽,在双方的密切配合之下,万宝路香烟广告佳作迭出。除此之外,李奥·贝纳还与许多广告客户建立 密切的合作关系。这种关系的建立并不是靠拉拉扯扯、吃饭请客之类的手段,而是完全凭借完全高质量的服务和具有独特创意的广告作品。正因为如此,美国电报电 话公司、麦当劳、P&G公司选择李奥·贝纳作为他们的广告代理。
  李奥·贝纳在广告创作上的出色表现,使他成为最早获得纽约文案俱乐部 所颁发的”杰出撰稿人之一,在谈到自己广告创作的成功之道时,李奥·贝纳认为关键在于注意研究商品本身的独特性,市场上的各种商品,无论是一个大饼、还是 一辆汽车,一般说来,只要它能够存在,都有某种特定的因素在起作用,使得制造商去生产它,使得消费者去不断购买它,而广告人的责任就是去尽力发掘这一客观 存在的东西,同时,采用适当的手段去表现,以引起人们的注意。出色的广告人有各种各样,但是最好的广告人必须具有把已知的东西与可信的东西放在一起重新组 合的能力,这样才能真正打动人心。李奥·贝纳的经验之谈至今对后来人有着重要的借鉴作用。

  李奥·贝纳经典语录100句:

  1、伸手摘星,即使徒劳无功,亦不致一手污泥。
  “When your each for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”

  2、不想犯错?只要不再去想好的创意点子就行了。
  “To swear off making mistake sisvery easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.”

  3、丧失谦逊,会危害我们的判断力;自以为是,可以让我们前进时栽跟斗。
  “Loss of humility can wreck our judgment. Smug complacency can put aroad block in front of our progress.”

  4、广告没有永恒的成功。
  “There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.”

  5、我相信,自我的满足就是每天感觉自己的薪水一分一毫都是自己流血流汗赚来的。
  “Personal satisfaction, Ibelieve, must come in a day-to-day feeling that one has earned his orher pay.”

  6、我从未见过,在任何真正伟大广告诞生的过程中,没有一点疑惑、没有堆满的字纸篓、没有殚精竭虑,没有对自我的恼怒和诅咒。
   “Rarely haveIseenany really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bentnoses, irritation and down right cursedness.”

  7、有趣却毫无销售力的广告,只是在原地踏步;但是有销售力却无趣的广告,却令人憎恶。
  “Fun without sell gets no where but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.”

  8、做生意的唯一目的,就在服务人群;而广告的唯一目的,就在对人们解释这项服务。
  “The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining these rvice which business renders.”

  9、这家公司从不曾刻板而无趣。这是我们珍贵的资产,也是每天兢兢业业的原动力。
  “One thing this company has never been is stuffy. And this is avaluable thing not to have been andisvery much apart of what make sustick.”

  10、简单点吧!让我们挑最明显的特点-最共通的事物-把它做得非比寻常地好。
  “Keep it simple. Let’s do the obvious thing-the common thing-but let’s do it uncommonly well.”

  11、最可怕的未来,就是万一我们得了「肥脑症」(Fatheadism),两耳之间别无长物,只有肥油,足以致我们于死地。
  “The most fear ful possibility that lies ahead is that we might contract ‘fat head ism’-fat between the ears can destroy us.”

  12、我们希望消费者说:「这真是个好产品」,而不是说:「这真是个好广告」。
  “We want consumers to say, ‘That’s a hell of product ’ in stead of ‘ That’s a hell of an ad.’”

  13、企划广告时,就该想到如何销售。
  “Plan the sale when you plan the ad.”

  14、即使不考虑道德因素,不诚实的广告也被证实无利可图。
  “Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.”

  15、如果你无法将自己当成消费者,那么你根本就不该进入广告这一行。
  “If you can’t turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn’t be in thead writing business at all.”

  16、如果你在芝加哥做不出好广告,换到别的地方也无济于事。
  “If you can’t make a good ad in Chicago, you can’t make one anywhere.”

  17、有能力的创意人员,不会认为他的工作只是做一则或一套广告,他一定会下功夫去了解影响产品销售的其它因素。
  “The competent creative man does not approach his job solely in terms of making an advertisement, or a series of advertisements. He must approach it with a clear understand of what other factors are involved in the sale of the product.”

  18、在这个没人知道明天是什么样子的世界里,唯一能教人免于沮丧发狂的东西,就是朴实原始的作品。
  “In a world where nobody seems to know what’s going to happen next, the only thing to do to keep from going completely nuts from fru stration is plain old-fashioned work.”

  19、对生活抱持全面性的好奇,仍是伟大创意人员成功的秘诀。
  “Curiosity about life in all of it saspects, Ithink, is still the secret of great creative people.”

  20、我们生活的真正目的,便是透过创意和点子,为客户塑造商誉并不断开创销售佳绩。
  “Our real purpose in life is that of improving the sales effectiveness and reputation of our clients through ideas.”

  21、如果我们努力去寻找的话,总会有改进的空间,在某处等着我们。
  “There is aparadise of improvement a waiting us if we search hard enough for it.”

  22、我渐渐学到,为当时不受欢迎的想法或观念而战,永远是值回票价的,千万别屈服匆促而轻率的大众协议。
  “I have learned that it pays to fight for concepts and causes that may appear unpopular at the moment, rather than following the course of quick and easy agreement.”

  23、很明显的,公司不可能比员工成长得更好或更快。
  “It is apparent that the company can’t be any better or bigger than the growth of the people in it.”

  24、广告是人与人沟通的行业。我们应永远力行这个原则。
  “In this agency business weare people talking to people, and that’s what we should keep running through our fingers.”

  25、我们制作销售产品的广告,但也请记住,广告负有广泛的社会责任。
  “Let’s gear our advertising to sell our goods, but let’s recognize also that advertising has abroad social responsibility.”

  26、如果你并不拥有十足的创造力,丰富的想像力,对万事万物也没有太多的好奇和疑问,那么,我劝你最好离广告这行远一点。
  “If you’re not fertile and imaginative and full of wonder and curiosity, Iurge you to stay a way from advertising.”

  27、所谓的「拜大主义」,就是冰封固有操守而火热追求利润。
  “‘Too-bigness’ has set in when the hot pursuit of profits cutscorners on old-fashioned ethics.”

  28、一个真正优秀的创意人员,对实事求是比能言善道更有兴趣,对感动人心比甜言蜜语更觉满足。
  “Are allygood creative personis more interested in earnestness than in glibness and takes more satisfaction out of converting people than in ‘wowing’ them.”

  29、创意给人生命和生趣。
  “Ideas alone enable aman to survive and flourish.”

  30、当一个人从骨子里深深了解什么是对的,并时时身体力行,他便能免于落入妥协的陷阱-没有人能收买或腐化他。
  “When a man knows deep in his bones what is right, and keeps actingonit, heavoids the trap of compromise-he remains incorruptible.”

  31、一个公司,如果员工都不敢开口说话,发出不同声音,或大胆表达创见,大概离关门不远了。
  “A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.”

  32、公司壮大的一半乐趣,我认为,是对「先贬后褒」毫不在意。
  “Half the pleasure of getting big, I think, is to thum by our noseat the indignity of getting dignified.”

  33、让我们继续以此闻名:「这家代理商,花了大部分时间在改进它的理念,而不是在辩解它的正确性」。
  therfactorsareinvolvedinthesaleoftheproduct.”

  34、整体的解决方法始于单一个体的个别努力。
  “Collective solutions to problems start with individual human beings and individual efforts.”

  35、公司变大,有时候的确有说不出的苦处;但是,相信我,比起缩编或停滞,这种痛苦实在微不足道。
  “Growing pains sometines may seem unbearable, but believe me they are nothing compared with the pain of shrinking or the pain of standing still.”

  36、广告如此这般告诉人们:「如此产品,给你如此的好处,到此处你就能找到它」。
  “Advertising says to people, ‘Here’s what we’ve got. Here’s what it will do for you. Here’s how to get in.’”

  37、广告代理商的作品是与温暖的,全然人性的,它触及人们的需求、欲望、梦想和希望;这样的作品,绝对无法在工厂生产线上完成。
   “The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its ‘product’ can not be turned out on an as sembly line.”

  38、我慢慢懂得,即使呆子也能写个烂广告;但是,要弄出点好东西,就真需要个天才。
  “Ihavelearnedthatanyfoolcanwriteabadad,butthatittakesarealgeniustokeephishandsoffagoodone.”

  39、好广告不只在传达讯息,它能以信心和希望,穿透大众心灵。
  “Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.”

  40、唯一有价值的创意会议是,参与的每个人都以相同的事实开始为讨论的基准,不论点子
  乍听之下有多狂野,也都有雅量相待,并表现出谦冲的尊重。
   “The only creative conference worth adamnis one in which everybody in the room starts from the same base of fact, a consuming appetite for ideas no matter how wild they may first appear, and a humbleres pectfor them.”

  41、我逐渐体会到,没有好客户,就不会有好广告;没有好广告,就也留不住好客户。还有,没有任何一个客户,会买他自己都没兴趣,或是看不懂的广告。
   “I have learned that you can’t have good advertising without a good client, that you can’t keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.”

  42、如果事实支持你,而你也相信自己,在一路为创意而战的途中,绝少会败下阵来。
  “If you have the facts on your side and honest conviction in your heart, your rarely lose by fighting for your idea all the way.”
  43、你一再错失大好良机,是不是因为走到了十字路口,而自己总是浑然不觉?
  “Are you blowing opportunity after opportunity because you can’t recognize across road when you come to it?”

  44、我们的行业,就是创意。创意在气味相投的气氛中,最能成长茁壮。
  “Our business is ideas. They grow and flourish best in an atmo sphere of congenial collab or ation.”

  45、与公司门面及财务状况相较,我们应该更关心公司的灵魂–那就是我们的价值观,热情
  与操守。
  “It seems to us there should beles sconcern about the dimension sofa business. And considerably more concern about it sheart best-the value, zest and spirit behind it sphysical and financial facade.”

  46、在物色创意人选时,那些对生命近乎天真般好奇的人,总会让我产生高度兴趣。
  actors are involved in the sale of the product.”

  47、在我认为,做广告最伟大的成就是使人信服;而没有任何东西比产品本身更能说服人。
  “The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.”

  48、占领市场必先占领消费者的心灵。
  “Before you can have ashare of market, you must have ashare of mind.”

  49、消费大众并不真正知道自己要什么。直到那些创意以商品方式呈现在他们的面前。如果他们能事先告诉你自己要什么,今天就不会有轮子、杠杆,甚或汽车、飞机和电视的出现。
   “The public does not know what it wants, and there is no sure way of finding out until the idea is exposed under normal conditions of sale. If people could tell you in advance what they want, there would never have been a wheel, a lever, much less an automobile, an air plane or a TV set.”

  50、没上过档的广告,做得再好,都永远无法创造销售。
  “A good ad which is not run never produces sales.”

  51、太多广告努力不要超越人们的智商,结果落得无人闻问。
  “Too many ads that try not to go over the reader’s headend up beneath his notice.”

  52、我发觉,写一则谈好广告的演讲稿,远比创造一个好广告来得容易。
  “I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.”

  53、在企划的过程里,我喜欢在伟大创意未知国度边缘冒险的感觉;但只要懂得利用事实为器,我们就有机会攻城掠地。
  “In all of our planning I like to feel that we adventurously live on the fringe of the Great Creative Unknown, but if we are properly armed with facts we are always better prepared to enterit.”

  54、我认为,在人类历史中,只有一个人是不可或缺的,他就是亚当。
  “In my opinion, there has been only one indispensable man in the his tory of the world. His name was Adam.”

  55、我喜欢我们的公司看起来像一家光着脚丫的代理商,心中一直努力「穿别人的鞋子」,设身处地为他人着想–是一个辛勤工作的农场,而不是休闲观光的农舍。
   “I like to look on our own shops as kind of ab are foot agency which is men tally always trying to put itself into other people’s shoes-a working ranch rather than ad uderanch.”

  56、我们业务量的成长来自现有客户的成长多于新客户的增加。
  “We built our business not somuch by getting accounts as building them.”

  57、伟大的创意或平面广告,总是出其不意地单纯,触动人心而不凿斧痕。
  “As I have observedit, great advertising writing, either in print or TV, is always deceptively and disarminglys imple. It has the common touch without being or sounding patronizing.”

  58、我相信广告最大的危险之一,不在误导群众,而是让他们觉得要命地无聊。
  “I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.”

  59、广告中原创的诀窍,不在制造新奇花俏的图像文字,而是组合那些熟悉的文字与图片,产生全新的趣味。
  “The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.”
  tors are involved in the sale of the product.”

  60、在我们这个行业,当你开始关心数钞票,胜于做好广告及服务客户时,很快的,你就会
  发现没有多少钞票可数。
  “In this business when you start putting the emphasison counting money rather than getting out better ads and other wise giving your clients better service, you soon learn that there is very little money to count.”

  61、即流的最好方法,就是善于利用时间,它直接影响我们实际的费用与利润。
  “The greatest saving of all is better utilization of our time.This directly affects practically every phase of the business in terms of expense and profits.”

  62、我始终抱持着一个态度:没有「问题客户」,只有客户的重大问题。陷溺问题的挣扎,永远比寻求解决之道浪费时间且消耗精力。
   “I have always taken the attitude that no account is a ‘problem account’ but that all accounts have important problem sattached to the m-that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by
 fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it.”

  63、与人相处共事,我学到一件非常简单的事实:「没有人故意犯错」。这个体认让我们集中心力寻求补救之道,而不让犯错的人感觉生不如死。如果这个人是块料,他的内疚会是最令他难过的谴责。
   “In learning to work and live with people, the most important thing I am coming to understand is the simple truth that ‘no one makes mistakes on purpose.’ Knowing this should allow us to concentrate on correcting the mistake rather than making life miserable for the mistake maker. If he is the right sort, nothing you can say or do to him will make him feel any worse about the mistake than he does already.”

  64、伟大的创意造就伟大的广告公司,而伟大的广告公司依然以伟大的广告为目标。
  “Agenciest hat create great advertising maybe come big agencies, but the irgoalre mains the creation of great advertising.”

  65、要单纯,要使人记忆深刻,要让人乐于注意、看得有趣。
  “Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.”

  66、有乐趣的环境能滋养创意,没有人工作只是为了好玩,但并不意味工作不能变得有趣。
  “Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there can not be fun in business.”

  67、像我们这样规模的公司,很明显地,作业必须精密地分工,但这并不意味我们必须「本位化」。
  “In operating a business of our size, it is obvious that we have to be well department alized. This does not mean, however, that we have to be channelized.”

  68、就我所见,最大的问题就是要如何避免自己行径妄自尊大。
  “The biggest problem of all, as I see it, is a human one–how to keep from acting big.”

  69、「伸手摘星」可能听起来有些天真,但却是我一个热情信念;也许这个世界真该多一点
  这样的浪漫。
   “‘Reaching for the Stars’ may sound a little naive, but it is a thought in which I passionately believe;and maybe the world could use alittle more naivete of that kind.”

  70、我想正是伸手摘星的精神,让我们很多人长时间地工作奋战。不论到哪,让作品充分表
  现这个精神,并且驱使我们放弃佳作,只求杰作。
   “It is this spirit (Reaching for the Stars) which I think has made many of us work long hours, which makesus carry the thought of our work with us wherever we go, which makesuslaya side good work for better work.”

  71、我一直觉得广告是可能让人兴奋的,并且乐在其中,觉得深具价值、意义而可敬。同时广告也是必须深思熟虑,全力以赴的行业。
   “I have always felt that advertising could be something to get excited about. To take pleasure in. To regard as worth while, meaningful, respectable. Something to do thoughtfully and well.”

  72、认为大众可以被愚弄、牵着鼻子走的人,就是低估社会大众;当然,他在广告圈也不会有什么大成就。
  “Anyone whoth inks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty lowes timate of people-and he won’t do very well in advertising.”

  73、我倾听每个人讲话并一一记录,特别是对业务人员。因为,他们一直最接近人群。
  “I listen to everybody and take notes. Particularly sales men.They get colse to people.”

  74、我们组织机构的运作,不应该将那些「异议分子」及不依常规的非我族类排拒在外。
  “It’s important in building our organizational machines not to exclude the dissenter, the ‘Outsider,’ the non-conformist.”

  75、一个放诸四海皆准的事实-必须先做成朋友,对方才会听你的忠告。
  “It seems axiomaticth at you have to make afriend before you can effectively make him aproposition.”

  76、如果你要写废话,也要写得像样,不要写得低俗。
  “If you are writing about baloney, don’t try to make it Cornishhen, because that is the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darned good baloney.”

  77、文字,是我们这行业的利器。文字在意念的表达中,注入热情和灵魂。
  “The grist for our mill is still words. Words as they put the sock and soul into the expression of ideas.”

  78、坚持不让权宜之计取代原则,不让浮夸掩盖事实。
  “Take a firm stand again stputting expediency above principle; bluff a head of facts.”

  79、一个具有销售力的创意,基本上从未改变过,必须有吸引力与相关性。但是,在广告噪音喧嚣的今天,如果你不能引人注目并获得信任,依然一事无成。
   “A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, area simportantas ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain’t got no thing.”

  80、高雅的品味,崇高的道德标准,向社会大众负责及不施压力威胁的态度-这些事让你终有所获。
  “These things pay off-good taste, a high standard of ethics, an attitude of public responsibility and low pressure.”

  81、我唯一的警告是,公司的成长绝不能以正直为代价;我认为,正直是这家广告代理商的灵魂与前进的动力。
  “My only warning is that growth never compromises in tegrity, and I regard integrity as the heart and driving force of this agency.”

  82、我学到去实践我所谓的-「建设性的不满足」。
  “I have learned to practice what I call ‘constructived is satisfaction.’”

  83、我认为一个伟大的广告,是世上最美的事物。
  “I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.”

  84、一个真正的创意,拥有它自己的力量与生命。
  “Arealideahasapowerofitsownandalifeofitsown.”

  85、坚持我们誓守的唯一真理-神圣的个人操守。
  “Cling like wildcats to the only realities we can swear we have hold of-our own scared and individual integrities.”

  86、尽忠职守,勤奋工作,并且热爱、荣耀、相信自己的直觉。
  “Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.”

  87、我所享有的任何成就,完全归因于对客户与工作的高度责任感,不惜付出自我而成就完美的热情,以及绝不容忍马虎的想法,草率粗心的工作,与差强人意的作品。
   “Whatever success I have enjoyed, I attributeal most entirely to a deep personalsense of responsibility to our clients and to the job at hand, with a passion for thoroughness,often at considerable personal sacrifice, and anunyielding into lerance of sloppy thinking, sloppy work and almost-good-enough jobs.”

  88、好广告会是图片与文字的快乐联姻,而不是他们之间的竞赛。
  “Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not acontest between them.”

  89、我深信卓越的创意作品,永远是一个成功代理商前进巨轮的中轴-过去是,现在是,未来亦如是。
  “I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency.”

  90、我寻找了解并熟谙如何做好广告的撰文与艺术指导人员,他们必须技艺娴熟,盖下的一砖一瓦皆有其旨趣。
  “I look for crafts men in words and pictures who so completely understand good creative masonry and are so skill edinit, that when they layabrick out of place they do it on purpose.”

  91、在演出的舞台上,广告不是一出独角戏。它是以行销领衔下各项活动集体演出中的一员。而且广告必须与其它活动和谐一致,方能有好的演出效果。
   “…In its performance, advertising is not asoloist. It is a member of anensemble of all those activities that can be classified under the general head of marketing, and it must  do its part in harmony with them if the end resultis to be good.”

  92、建立服务关系的唯一坚实基础,在于彼此的信心与尊敬。除非一开始就有此基础,否则客户终将落得以赔钱与失望收场。
  “The only sound basis of apers on alservice relationship is mutual confidence and respect. Unless that existsat the start, the account wille ventually representloss and disappointment.”

  93、摩擦产生星星之火,星星之火点燃伟大创意的燎原巨焰。
  “Friction makes sparks and sparks start great creative conflagrations.”

  94、说话算数,遵守时限,信守承诺,这些不仅是固有的道德,而且做不做得到,决定我们成为什么样的人。个性也是如此形成的。
   “Promises must be kept, deadlines met, commitments honored; not just for the sake of old-fashioned morality, but because we become what we do(or fail to do), and character is simply the sum of our performances.”

  95、广告无法为一个人们不需要、不渴望拥有的产品塑造奇迹。但是,一位有技巧的广告人可以将产品原被忽略的特点表现出来,而激起人们拥有的欲望。
   “Advertising can not perform magic for an unwanted or undesirable product. But as killed advertising man can present previously over looked virtues in a product in a way that will make people reach for it.”

  96、事前计划,但要保持弹性。
  “Plan a head but maint a inflexibility.”

  97、我们应该不断提醒自己,运用时间的最高生产国,才有机会让自己有最大的收入,公司有最好的利润。
  “We should constantly remind ourselves that the most productive use of our own time offers the greatest opportunity for increased income for us as individuals and for better earnings for our company.”

  98、任何时间,我们都应该去自我检验伴随成功而来,却引起内部腐败的迹象。这些迹象就是自满-惯性-以及官僚主义。
  “This is as good atime as any tostart examining ourselves for any of those tell-tale signs of success that lead to innerrot. Those signs are complacency…coasting…bureaucracy.”

  99、你可以在广告业成长,但不一定要变老。
  “You can grow up in th eadvertising business, but you don’t have to grow old in it.”

  100、人们时常问我为何选择了广告。其实是广告选择了我。
  “I am often asked how I got into this business. I didn’t. The business got into me.”
  最触动的是那一句?

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