Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.
DAVID OGILVYLike a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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 consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.
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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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Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
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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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What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
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Leaders grasp nettles.
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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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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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Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going gaga.
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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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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 secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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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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