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Design Quotes by David Ogilvy
- Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage…
- Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.
- The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
- If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
- Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
- Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed…
- On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent…
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- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks