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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

David Ogilvy

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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Important Marketing Place Product Vocabulary Word Yourself
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.
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Advertisement Committee Creation Mess See Television
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
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Advertisement Buy Consumer Decision Form
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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Agency Egg Genius Gold Man
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
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Business Idiot Infest Ourselves Pretend
Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
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Company Goal Immortal
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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Advertising Economy Enemy Freedom Person Removal Society Transformation
If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
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Creative Sale
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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Acceptance Attack Bad Eyes Invite Magazine Man Manner Strike
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
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Goal Hire Leaving People Remark Settle Yourself
On 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.
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Average Money People Reading Time Yourself
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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Advertisement Editor Need Yourself
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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Advertisement Avoid Awkward Cash Client Factor Myself Purpose
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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Advertising Dangerous Enemy Ignorance Research Signal
Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
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Advertisement Improvement Stop Yourself
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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Advertisement Consumer Himself Honesty Wife

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

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