"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
-David Ogilvy
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"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.“
-David Ogilvy
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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."
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"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create."
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"The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife."
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"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
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"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product."
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