Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
DAVID OGILVYDon’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
More David Ogilvy Quotes
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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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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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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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A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
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The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
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Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
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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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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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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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Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
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Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.
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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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Leaders grasp nettles.
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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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Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
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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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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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Much 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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Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
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Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
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Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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Many people – and I think I am one of them – are more productive when they’ve had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I’m far better able to write.
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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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There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.
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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
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