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David Ogilvy

"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."

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Donna Grant

"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."

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Donna Grant

"The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!"

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Donna Grant

"A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!"

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Donna Grant

"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

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Donna Grant

"Be excellent in your own terms."

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Donna Grant

"Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!"

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Donna Grant

"But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation."

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Donna Grant

"By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary."

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Donna Grant

"Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress."

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Donna Grant

"In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman."

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David Ogilvy
"It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea."

Creativity

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David Ogilvy
"Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."

People

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David Ogilvy
"It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye."

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David Ogilvy
"I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular."

People

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David Ogilvy
"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."

Advertising

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David Ogilvy
"Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything."

Advertising

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David Ogilvy
"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."

Advertising

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David Ogilvy
"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."

Advertising

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David Ogilvy
"Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible."

Advertising

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David Ogilvy
"What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it."

Advertising

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