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Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

David Ogilvy

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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Advertisement Campaign Exception Live Wife World
The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
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Big Excellence Profit Pursuit Satisfaction
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
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Advertisement Influence Reflection Society
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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Advertising Economy Enemy Freedom Person Removal Society Transformation
Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.
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Advertisement Sale
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
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Advertisement Information Persuasion
I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
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Advertisement Avoid Awkward Cash Client Factor Myself Purpose
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
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Business Idiot Infest Ourselves Pretend
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
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Advertisement Important Yourself
The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.
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Consumer Herself Wife
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
Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
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Advertisement Brand Complex Contribution Image
If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
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Creative Sale
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
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Abstract Illustration Manufacturer Myself Painting Reading
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
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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Company Hire Inspirational People Perspective Small Thinking

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