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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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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Freedom
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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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Good copy cant be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. Youve got to believe in the product. – David Ogilvy

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good
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. – William Osler

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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Experience

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald. – Navjot Singh Sidhu

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Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didnt go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking. – Josh Radnor

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I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Let thy discontents be thy secrets. – Benjamin Franklin

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