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
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- The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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- Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
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