Advertising Quote by David Ogilvy

“Creativity is to ads as product quality is to cars, airplanes and electronic equipment – it’s absolutely necessary, and it needs to be built-in…

— Michael Farmer

“Accountability for agency operations is fragmented. Each office in a network is a separate profit center. Each department in an office self-defines its missions.…

— Michael Farmer

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

— Ilka Chase

In advertising agencies, they will always hire more client servicing people than creatives.

— Charles Elba

Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify…

— Simon Mainwaring

“Do you think it childish to use a set of written principles to guide the management of an advertising agency? I can only tell…

— David Ogilvy

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…

— David Ogilvy

“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision,” he told Playboy in 1985. “They insert lots of layers of middle…

— Adam Lashinsky

To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"

— David Ogilvy

Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running…

— Steve Jobs

Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role.…

— Simon Mainwaring

I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

— Dee Rees