Bernice Fitz-Gibbon famous quotes

03-28-2025

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Creativity #Shoes #Vision
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Business #Comfort #Should
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Creativity #Numbers #Cooks
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Creativity
It's smart to be thrifty.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Smart #Advertising #Thrifty
To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Passion #People #Want
Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Sight #People #United States
Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Dream #People #Want
Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Beautiful #Attitude #Teenager
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Patience #Definitions #Gratification

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