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 OGILVYThe headline is the ‘ticket on the meat.’ Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
More David Ogilvy Quotes
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Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.
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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
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Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
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Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.
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On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
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The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
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I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
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The headline is the ‘ticket on the meat.’ Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
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The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.
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Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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You now have to decide what ‘image’ you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.
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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.
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The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
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