David Ogilvy

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David Ogilvy


Born
in West Horsley, Surrey, The United Kingdom
June 23, 1911

Died
July 21, 1999

Website

Genre
Business


David Mackenzie Ogilvy was born in West Horsley, England, on June 23, 1911. He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and at Christ Church, Oxford (although he didn't graduate).
david ogilvy After Oxford, Ogilvy went to Paris, where he worked in the kitchen of the Hotel Majestic. He learned discipline, management - and when to move on: "If I stayed at the Majestic I would have faced years of slave wages, fiendish pressure, and perpetual exhaustion." He returned to England to sell cooking stoves, door-to-door.
Ogilvy's career with Aga Cookers was astonishing. He sold stoves to nuns, drunkards, and everyone in between. In 1935 he wrote a guide for Aga salesmen (Fortune magazine called it "probably the best sales manual ever written"). Amon ...more

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Ogilvy on Advertising
4.15 avg rating — 11,621 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions
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Confessions of an Advertisi...
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The Unpublished David Ogilvy
4.14 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 1987 — 16 editions
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An Autobiography
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The Eternal Pursuit of Unha...
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Ogilvy on Advertising
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Ogilvy on Advertising
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The Theory and Practice of ...
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Escape from Jupiter
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“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
― David M. Ogilvy
tags: advertising, marketing
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“The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.”
― David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man
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“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.”
― David Ogilvy
tags: advertising, grammar, humour
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