Quote by 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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The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account. – David Ogilvy

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relationship
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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 life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. – David Ogilvy

Category:
Experience
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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy

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Business
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And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life. – Elton John

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Business

When Ive gone back to work, its always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but its the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I cant avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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Business

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. – Peter Singer

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Business

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldnt find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. Thats when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business. – Vera Wang

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Business

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Fortune and love favor the brave. – Ovid

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I try to forget about the expectation thats out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that Im not trying to please them. Ive spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. – Chuck Palahniuk

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. – Phyllis McGinley

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