Fairfax M. Cone

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Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
- Fairfax M. Cone
Collection: Moving
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A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.
- Fairfax M. Cone
Collection: Self
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Write to one person, not a million.
- Fairfax M. Cone
Collection: Writing
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Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone
- Fairfax M. Cone
Collection: Business
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Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.
- Fairfax M. Cone
Collection: Running