Advertising Quote by David Ogilvy

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

— John Cleese

I think the corporate world is pretty starved for personality. The reason you have comic strips like 'Dilbert' and sitcoms like 'The Office' is…

— Glenn Kelman

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

— George Orwell

All these corporations don't want their drivers to ruin their image, so you can't say what you think. You're basically not allowed to have…

— Jacques Villeneuve

If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional…

— Rachael Leigh Cook

I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I am as…

— Greg Mottola

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

— Al Goldstein

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

— David F. Wells

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

— Steve Wynn

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road…

— Jonathan Swift

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld