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Agency Quotes by David Ogilvy
- To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"
- Training should not be confined to trainees. It should be a continuous process, and should include the entire professional staff of the agency. The more…
- Most agencies run scared, most of the time. . . .Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising. . . . If I were aclient,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that…
- 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…
- Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency…
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- 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