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Leaders grasp nettles.

David Ogilvy

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
Leaders grasp nettles.
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Grasp Leadership One Liner
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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Important Marketing Place Product Vocabulary Word Yourself
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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Advertising Dangerous Enemy Ignorance Research Signal
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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Drink Executive Illumination Marketing Myself Notice Research
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
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Advertisement Influence Reflection Society
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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Advertisement Honesty Politics Stop
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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Career Life Secret Time
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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Brand Decision Image Market People Personality Place Yourself
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
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
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Advertisement Evil Limitation
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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Drink Myself People Product Thinking Writing
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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Advertisement Committee Creation Mess See Television
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
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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Best Funny Ideas Possible Thinking Yourself
I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
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Attraction Edge Evil Feeling Help Myself Starvation Time

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