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Men Quotes by David Ogilvy
- The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.
- 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…
- As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man…
- 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…
- Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.
- Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.
- If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.
- 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…
- 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…
- It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man…
- The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and…
- Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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