Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
DAVID OGILVYOur business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
More David Ogilvy Quotes
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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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Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
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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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Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
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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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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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What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
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The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
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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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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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Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
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Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.
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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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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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The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
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