“Where people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work.”
― Confessions of an Advertising Man
― Confessions of an Advertising Man
“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
“The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.”
― Confessions of an Advertising Man
― Confessions of an Advertising Man
“In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create. ‘Search the parks in all your cities You’ll find no statues of committees.”
― Ogilvy on Advertising
― Ogilvy on Advertising
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