David Ogilvy

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#attract #cent #editorial #like #look

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#bigger #company #dwarfs #each #giants

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#eccentricities #gaga #get #going #old

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#dishonest #kind #left #only #ought

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#consumer #moron #she #wife #your

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#am #better #drink #far #find