Quote by David Ogilvy
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. S

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

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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. – 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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The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything. – David Ogilvy

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There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. – Charles Ives

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Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. – Sandra Day OConnor

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I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry. – George Strait

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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. – Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

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