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“Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.”

David Ogilvy · Society

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David Ogilvy

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Freedom

David Ogilvy

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

Business

David Ogilvy

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Best

David Ogilvy

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

Age