David Ogilvy Quotes

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

David Ogilvy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YourselfCreativeSurround Yourself

We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.

John Lasseter

LoveTalentStepPeopleStoryYoung

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

Stephen R. Donaldson

IntentionFurtherEitherSettingHad

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

Sophia Bush

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Prejudices save time.

Robert Byrne

TimeSavePrejudices

I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.

Lloyd Blankfein

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Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

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I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

Joy Harjo

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I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Joshua Micah Marshall

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Coming up in the School of Aaron Sorkin Delivery of Fast-Paced Dialogue and Hyper-Articulateness prepared me well for Shondaland, where there are many of the same factors at play.

Joshua Malina

SchoolMePlaySameUpDelivery

The gift of giving and paying it forward has always been traits I consider to be invaluable.

Jon Taffer

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The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

Brennan Manning

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There's just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home.

Ashley Jensen

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