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 OGILVYThe advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
More David Ogilvy Quotes
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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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Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
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Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
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Leaders grasp nettles.
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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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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
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The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
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Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
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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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What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
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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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Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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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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