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… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do. — David Ogilvy Copy Share
In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers… — David Ogilvy Copy Share
“Your alcoholics may include some of your brightest stars. The problem is to identify them, protected as they always are by their secretaries and… — David Ogilvy Copy Share
It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big… — David Ogilvy Copy Share
Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if… — David Ogilvy Copy Share
Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say. — David Ogilvy Copy Share
The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay… — David Ogilvy Copy Share
I don't believe in tricky advertising, I don't believe in cute advertising, I don't believe in comic advertising. The people who perpetrate that kind… — David Ogilvy Copy Share
I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a… — David Ogilvy Copy Share
Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels. — David Ogilvy Copy Share
