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David Ogilvy

"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product."

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Donna Grant

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

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Donna Grant

"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."

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Donna Grant

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

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Donna Grant

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

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Donna Grant

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

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Donna Grant

"Having a job does not mean living."

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Donna Grant

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."

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Donna Grant

"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

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Donna Grant

"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

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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
"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."

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David Ogilvy
"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."

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

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David Ogilvy
"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."

Fun

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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."

Criticism

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David Ogilvy
"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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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."

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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."

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