David Ogilvy (1911-1999) wrote those words exactly 50 years ago and I have a simple question.

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Additionally successful managers-leaders are those follow a suggestion made by advertising legend, David Ogilvy.

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David Ogilvy gets my vote as the greatest advertising mind of the 20th century.

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The man himself was a jet-setting playboy who rarely met the David Ogilvy standards of a great leader.

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At roughly the same time David Ogilvy started an ad campaign for Britain, the fifth most visited European country when he started.

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In 1963, British advertising pioneer David Ogilvy, in his book Confessions of an Advertising Man, argued that ads should be all business, selling products by informing consumers rather than entertaining them.

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