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Inspirational Quotes by David Ogilvy
- Don't hire a dog, then bark yourself
- One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.
- Don't count the people that you reach, reach the people who count
- If you can’t advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else?
- Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.
- I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad…
- Big ideas are usually simple ideas.
- Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.
- I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.
- You can't save souls in an empty church.
- What is a good advertisement? An advertisement which pleases you because of its style, or an advertisement which sells the most? They are seldom the…
- You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.
- Nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
- What you learn is more important than what you earn.
- If you want to be interesting, be interested.
- Within every brand is a product, but not every product is a brand.
- When you advertise fire extinguishers, open with the fire.
- Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.
- When you have nothing to say, sing it.
- Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.
- Creativity needs discipline and freedom.
- If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.
- The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.
- If it is something important, get a colleague to improve it,
- It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money...
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento