Logo
Quote by David Ogilvy
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

Other quotes by David Ogilvy

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

Category:
Experience
Author
David Ogilvy
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Advertising
category

We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready — even eager — to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. – Daniel J. Boorstin

Category:
Advertising

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

Category:
Advertising

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. – James R. Adams

Category:
Advertising

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. – Jerry Della Femina

Category:
Advertising

Random Quotes

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. – Alanis Morissette

Category:
Money

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful. – Fergie

Category:
mom

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. – Alfred Edward Housman

Category:
Poetry

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We dont want it to be something the majority is voting on. I dont think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority. – Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Category:
Equality