Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going gaga.
DAVID OGILVYA good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
More David Ogilvy Quotes
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If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
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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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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
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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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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
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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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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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Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.
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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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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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I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
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Leaders grasp nettles.
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