David Ogilvy on career
David Ogilvy46 quotes“The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.”
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Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don’t destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy
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