Headlines can be strengthend by the inclusion of emotional words like darling, love, fear, proud, friend and baby.
David OgilvyTraining should not be confined to trainees. It should be a continuous process, and should include the entire professional staff of the agency. The more our people learn, the more useful they can be to our clients.
David OgilvyWe all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.
David OgilvyI never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.
David OgilvyIt is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
David OgilvyIt takes uncommon guts to stick to one style in the face of all the pressures to 'come up with something new' every six months. It is tragically easy to be stampeded into change. But golden rewards await the advertiser who has the brains to create a coherent image, and the stability to stick with it over a long period.
David Ogilvy