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Quotes by Morris Hite

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.
– Morris Hite
Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.
– Morris Hite
If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.
– Morris Hite
If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.
– Morris Hite
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
– Morris Hite
It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.
– Morris Hite
It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.
– Morris Hite
Next to Christianity, advertising is the greatest force in the world. And I say that without sacrilege or disrespect. Advertising makes people discontented. It makes them want things they don't have. Without discontent, there is no progress, no achievement.
– Morris Hite
No agency is better than its account executives.
– Morris Hite
The agency's account executive should be able to step into the sales manager's shoes if the sales manager drops dead today.
– Morris Hite
The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.
– Morris Hite
The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.
– Morris Hite
There is more money wasted in advertising by underspending than by overspending. Years ago someone said that underspending in advertising is like buying a ticket halfway to Europe. You've spent your money but you never get there.
– Morris Hite
There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.
– Morris Hite
To establish a favorable and well-defined brand personality with the consumer the advertiser must be consistent. You can't use a comic approach today and a scientist in a white jacket tomorrow without diffusing and damaging your brand personality.
– Morris Hite
To Mrs. Mufoosky, the commercials may seem as long as a whore's dream. But to the new advertiser who has spent 100 Gs for his first network commercial - he gets a new understanding of a split second. It's the fastest half minute of his lifetime.
– Morris Hite