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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family t

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine. – David Ogilvy

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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. – 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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