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 OGILVYOn 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.
More David Ogilvy Quotes
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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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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
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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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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
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Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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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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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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The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.
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What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
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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.
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The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
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Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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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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