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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.

David Ogilvy

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
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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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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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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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The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.
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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
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Business Idiot Infest Ourselves Pretend
If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
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Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
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Advertisement Corruption Editor
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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Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.
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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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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.
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Advertisement Family Myself Reading Writing
Leaders grasp nettles.
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Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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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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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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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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