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Advertising Agencies Quotes by David Ogilvy
- Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has…
- A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
- Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot…
- 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.
- Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
- If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but…
- The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
- The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that…
- Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
- There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy…
- Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they…
- Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
- There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent…
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- I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system. — David Brinkley
- I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar
- Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler
- An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. — Fred Allen
- The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to… — Fred Allen
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- Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more… — Michael Schudson
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