Quote by David Ogilvy
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, o

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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Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. – David Ogilvy

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Experience
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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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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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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. – Samuel Adams

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I went onto reality TV as a business decision. – Bethenny Frankel

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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Khalil Gibran

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Justice means minding ones own business and not meddling with other mens concerns. – Plato

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Technology is us. There is no separation. Its a pure expression of human creative will. It doesnt exist anywhere else in the universe. Im rather sure of that. – David Cronenberg

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