David Ogilvy's Quote - Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family t

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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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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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Leaders grasp nettles. – 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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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. – William Bernbach

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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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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown’s Book of Politic

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History will see advertising “as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.” – Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of A

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