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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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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."
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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
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"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
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"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
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"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."
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"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
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"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."
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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."
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Explore more quotes by 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
"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
People
"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."
Art
"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
"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
Fun
"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."
Criticism
"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
"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
"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga."
People
"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."
Advertising
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