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• It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

  David Ogilvy

  Wife, Agents, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Perspective, Meat, Flags

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• Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

  David Ogilvy

  Rare Occasion, Tests, Fields

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Design, Television

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

  David Ogilvy

  Leadership, Business, Vocabulary

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.

  David Ogilvy

  Mean, People, Personality

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• Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

  David Ogilvy

  Might, March, Advertising

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• The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Essentials

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.

  Clive Owen

  Shaving, Stuff, Cabinets

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• And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Wish, Ordinary

  "Obama’s Healthcare Horror". Salon Column, www.salon.com. August 12, 2009.

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• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Blessing, Boredom, Progress

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• The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Government, Jim Crow Laws

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• Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, Engineering

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• Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, Fame, Disgusting

  "Katy Perry 'Tired of Being Famous': Who Should Stop Complaining About Fame?", www.foxnews.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

  Katy Perry

  People, Fake, Hollywood

  "Katy Perry doesn't want to 'hide' from divorce" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

  Rick Perry

  School, Awards, Texas

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

  Tom Peters

  Sneakers, Buzz, Today

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• Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

  River Phoenix

  Believe, Selling Products, Phony

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• Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  Questlove

  Art, Hip Hop, Hips

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• I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  School, Kids, Law

  TimeOut Interview, www.timeout.com.

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• Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Inspiration, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.314, Hamilton Books

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• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  Paul Rand

  Inspirational, Ideas, Goal

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• Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

  Paul Rand

  Running, Artist, Long

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• I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

  Lou Reed

  Art, People, Creative

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