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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.

~David Ogilvy

Topics: Advertising Economy Enemies Firm Freedom Merits Person Remove Society Transformed Whole

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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.

~David Ogilvy

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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.

~David Ogilvy

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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.

~David Ogilvy

Topics: Advertising Avoid Awkward Cash Clients Factor Marginal Marketing Mix Need Only Other Purposes Raid Tendency Whenever Whom

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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.

~David Ogilvy

Topics: Abstract Advertisement Advertising Conceal Illustrate Manufacturers Only Paintings Reader Some Wished Would

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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.

~David Ogilvy

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The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

~David Ogilvy

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Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

~David Ogilvy

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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.

~David Ogilvy

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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.

~David Ogilvy

Topics: Advertising Agencies Almost Destroy Disagreeable Eggs Exception Few Few Men Find Genius Golden Lay Men Need Them Very Without

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Businessman

Born: June 23rd, 1911

Died: July 21st, 1999

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