Confessions of an Advertising Man

David Ogilvy

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.”

“Where people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work.”

“The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.”

“What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.”

“As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?”

“Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.”

“Truth Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.”

“They are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post, for support rather than for illumination.”

“Search all he parks in all your cities; you'll find no statues of committees.”

“Pay peanuts and you get monkeys.”

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