"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
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"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 write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.“
-David Ogilvy
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