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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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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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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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Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe. – Hartman Jule

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When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select “The Age of Advertising” for the purpose. – Printers’ Ink, 27 May 1915

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As advertising blather becomes the nation’s normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. – George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twe

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Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. – Stuart Chase

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