David Ogilvy Quotes

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.

If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.

If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.

The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?

I want to do the best and be the best at what I do.

I've been lucky enough to do a lot of very interesting things, and every time, I've been like, 'I want to put everything into this because I want to see how far I can go with it.'

I don't understand people who just live to exist, live to be OK. Live to be regular, live to be average. It doesn't make any sense to me. I live to be the best. I don't live to be good. You only get one life, and I live to be great. I live to be special.

Every time we record, and every time we go out live, we try and beat what we've already done.

I think just dreaming big and having aspirations is important. So you know I want to be the greatest of all time at what I do and if you're not trying to be the greatest at what you do then you're not doing it for real.

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk it being bad, it can never be great.

One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

Easy doesn't do it.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.