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.
DAVID OGILVYSome manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
More David Ogilvy Quotes
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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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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
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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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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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Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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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.
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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 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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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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The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.
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Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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