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

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

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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. – David Ogilvy

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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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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and its been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. – Doug Coupland

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There has to be a measure of faith. Thats what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of. – Wentworth Miller

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In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things dont work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient. – Mehmet Oz

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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. – Les Brown

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