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.
DAVID OGILVYDevelop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going gaga.
More David Ogilvy Quotes
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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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Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
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Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
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Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
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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 do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
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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 notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
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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 best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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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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The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.
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If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.
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Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
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