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The man with all the time sits in the corner and c
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Its Nice To Be Nice To The Nice
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| | Steven Barkan - ,
I saw a snake once while stacking wood and screame
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| | David Lee Roth - ,
If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial
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| | Irvin S. Cobb - ,
If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial
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| | John Stuart Mill - ,
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease
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A man's dying is more the survivors affair th
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| | Thomas Mann - ,
A man's dying is more the survivors' aff
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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world
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A man should be careful never to tell tales of him
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David Ogilvy
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
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David Ogilvy
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form
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David Ogilvy
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents ou ...
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David Ogilvy
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my l ...
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David Ogilvy
It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art ...
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David Ogilvy
Most agencies run scared, most of the time. . . . Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising. . . . If I were a client, I would do ev ...
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David Ogilvy
To advertisers:"Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
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David Ogilvy
I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners
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David Ogilvy
If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are ...
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David Ogilvy
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make su ...
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David Ogilvy
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was adv ...
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David Ogilvy
Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. . . . It is unrealistic to expect your agency to ...
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David Ogilvy
Make sure that your agency makes a profit. Your account competes with all the other accounts in your agency. If it is unprofitable, it is unlikely tha ...
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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
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonn ...
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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 us ...
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David Ogilvy
I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to the people who see it every week. Bad advertising ca ...
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David Ogilvy
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things
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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 dest ...
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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 d ...
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Top Quotes
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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