“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.”
― Ogilvy on Advertising
― Ogilvy on Advertising
“Never allow two people to do a job which one could do. George Washington observed, ‘Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.”
― Ogilvy on Advertising
― Ogilvy on Advertising
“On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.”
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“Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.”
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“Where people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work.”
― Confessions of an Advertising Man
― Confessions of an Advertising Man
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