“The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”
― Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century
― Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“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
“Where people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work.”
― Confessions of an Advertising Man
― Confessions of an Advertising Man
“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?”
― Confessions of an Advertising Man
― Confessions of an Advertising Man
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