The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
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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Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
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Leaders grasp nettles.
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Many people – and I think I am one of them – are more productive when they’ve had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I’m far better able to write.
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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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.
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What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
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I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
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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.
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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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A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
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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 advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
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Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going gaga.
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It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
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Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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