Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
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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Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
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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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What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
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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.
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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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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
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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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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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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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Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
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Leaders grasp nettles.
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A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
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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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