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 to create them.

Quote by David Ogilvy

Topics: Television Quotes

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Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've...

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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell...

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It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements...

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I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have...

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I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the...

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I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract...

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Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I...

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There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look...

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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another...

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The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can...

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If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will...

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Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that...

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every...

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I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract...

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on...

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on...

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical...

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical...