Ogilvy, David quotes
1911 American Businessman Advertising ExpertThe consumer isn t a moron. She is your wife.
Ogilvy, David
Business
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
Ogilvy, David
Business
If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
Ogilvy, David
Business
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn t want your own family to read. You wouldn t tell lies to your own wife. Don t tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.
Ogilvy, David
Business
Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don t live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.
Ogilvy, David
Excellence
I don t know the rules of grammar. If you re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.
Ogilvy, David
Persuasion
I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.
Ogilvy, David
Mergers
A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member s talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
Ogilvy, David
Teams and Teamwork
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
Ogilvy, David
Advertising
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
Ogilvy, David
Vocation