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David Ogilvy

"The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising."

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"The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising."

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"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."

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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

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"I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising."

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"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."

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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

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"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."

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"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."

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"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."

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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."

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"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."

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

Excellence

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David Ogilvy
"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."

Society

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David Ogilvy
"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."

Life

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David Ogilvy
"Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write."

People

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David Ogilvy
"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."

Nation

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David Ogilvy
"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."

Advertising

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

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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