If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.
David OgilvyTo advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"
David OgilvyWe all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost โ for support, not for illumination.
David OgilvyThe business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements are so infernally dull.... our business needs massive transfusions of talent. And talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.
David Ogilvy