What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
DAVID OGILVYMuch 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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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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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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I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
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If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
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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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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 secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
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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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First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
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The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
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Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.
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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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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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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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