David Ogilvy on attraction
David Ogilvy46 quotes“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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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 Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy 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.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy 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.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy 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.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy 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 OgilvyDavid Ogilvy What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.
Lahiri MahasayaLahiri Mahasaya You’ve got to pay attention to what you’re attracted to because as you hold images of what you want, you’re gonna be attracted to things that are going to be attracted to you, but it literally moves into physical reality with and through you and it does that by law.
Bob ProctorBob Proctor If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.
Bob ProctorBob Proctor The kind of energy I attract is very calm.
Julia RobertsJulia Roberts You attract the predominant thoughts that you’re holding in your awareness.
Michael BeckwithMichael Beckwith Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.
Radhanath SwamiRadhanath Swami He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims.
Anandamayi MaAnandamayi Ma Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.
Radhanath SwamiRadhanath Swami
