David Ogilvy best Family Quotes – “Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.”
David Ogilvy best Experience Quotes – “I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.”
David Ogilvy best Business Quotes – “If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.”
David Ogilvy best Business Quotes – “The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.”
David Ogilvy best Business Quotes – “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 best Business Quotes – “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.”
David Ogilvy best Business Quotes – “Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.”
David Ogilvy best Best Quotes – “The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
David Ogilvy best Art Quotes – “I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.”