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David Ogilvy Quotes

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

David Ogilvy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: english
Birth: June 23, 1911 - July 21, 1999

Topics

Support Research Marketing Too Much

Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.

Jincy Willett

Girl Hate Writing Push You Cookies

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

Joe Manganiello

Me Book Look Mad Movies Right

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.

John Burroughs

Plants Birds Landscape You Look

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Max Winkler

Child Think Loved Too Much Why Much

I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go... They can own companies and apartments... but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.

Robert Mugabe

Alone White Go Say Ring Land

Grand economic theories rarely last more than a few decades. Some, if they are particularly in tune with technological or political events, may make it to half a century. Beyond that, little short of military force can keep them in place.

John Ralston Saul

Short Political Place Beyond More

The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration of Independence means what it says in its opening lines, that being the world's greatest nation means that we offer the world's greatest opportunities.

Rod Lurie

People World Opportunities American

The fact that Turkey, the U.S., and Russia and other countries are really interested in Cyprus because of its strategic location... the fact that Russians launder their money there to avoid sanctions, and the fact that key U.S. and Russia players were there - all make it really important for the Russia investigation.

Mike Quigley

Money Key Important Russia Location

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Michelle Obama

Progress Forward You Country Vote

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

Dean Karnazes

Live Single Off Grid Lot Lives

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Chino Moreno

Music Listening Aggressive Up Stuff

Having worked with many of the world's top modeling agencies for the last decade, I've seen what works and doesn't work in managing a model's career.

Coco Rocha

Work World Career Modeling Top Seen