Quote by David Ogilvy
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are i

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. – David Ogilvy

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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. – David Ogilvy

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine. – David Ogilvy

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

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