Don't bunt. Aim out of the park. Aim for the company of immortals.
-David Ogilvy
When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.
-David Ogilvy
It is now known that, on average, 200 words a minute sells more of your product.
-David Ogilvy
The Customer is not a moron, she is your wife. Don't insult her intelligence.
David Ogilvy
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can sell what you create.
-David Ogilvy
Next to luck, fertility and midnight oil are the best weapons to use in hunting new business.
David Ogilvy
Rigidity and Salesmanship do not combine.
David Ogilvy
Play to win, but enjoy the fun.
-David Ogilvy
I have never wanted to get an account so big that I could not afford to lose it. The day you do that, you commit yourself to living with fear. Frightened agencies lose the courage to give candid advice. Once you lose that you become a lackey.
-David Ogilvy
Bad advertising can unsell a product.
David Ogilvy
“Every French soldier carries a marshal's. baton in his knapsack”
-Napoleon
Let me tell you something: from then, until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldn't have gotten me out of books with a wedge Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life. -Malcolm X, the Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Scarce skills combined with even scarcer attitudes almost always lead to low unemployment and high wages.
Seth Godin (Stop Stealing Dreams)
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
“Being very good at anything involves being somewhat addicted.”
Ken Rogoff
"It's difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it."
-Upton Sinclair
