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
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. – David Ogilvy

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
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. – David Ogilvy
The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything. – David Ogilvy
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
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician — these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin. – Polly Adler