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What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

David Ogilvy

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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Advertisement Head Kind Product Reading Ticket
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
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.
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Advertisement Honesty Politics Stop
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
Leaders grasp nettles.
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Grasp Leadership One Liner
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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Development People Thinking Young Yourself
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
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Advertisement Entertainment Information Regard
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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Drink Executive Illumination Marketing Myself Notice Research
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
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
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Advertisement Important Yourself
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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Brand Decision Image Market People Personality Place Yourself
The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.
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Consumer Herself Wife
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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Believe Goodness Live Product Writing Yourself
Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
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Advertisement Improvement Stop Yourself
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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Best Funny Ideas Possible Thinking Yourself
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

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