David Ogilvy Quotes

I resent the implication that there was some kind of performance review process going on. They had other things on the table…. When all else feels they should try the truth.

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Bailing on a company is just something you don't do.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

He is violating his oath of office.

I have had teachers who were brutal. If you look up 'brutal' in a dictionary, you will see their names. And I think that it's under the guise of wanting to change the actor's habit - wanting to break bad habits and replace them with brand-new ones you can use for the rest of your career.

My high school coach was a bit of a jerk.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

This is the problem with the leaking. This is actually a terrible thing. Let's say I'm firing Michael Short today. The fact that you guys know about it before he does really upsets me as a human being and as a Roman Catholic.

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because we put them in that position.

There's not an American that would want to be investigated by someone they passed over for their old job back within the last 24 hours.

Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem.

I am Christian, and I was very vocal about that at first until people started using it against me. Now I've learned to keep it to myself. I don't think it has anything to do with my job or how present myself. I feel like it got really twisted.

I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

Women say things that are direct - they are told they are too abrasive. I got that feedback in the corporate world.

I don't know, sometimes the manager doesn't like you.

Cheating is nothing to be proud of.

I did abuse the game a bit because I didn't give it the respect sometimes.

No reasonable American believes that someone can investigate their own boss.

The most disappointing businesses, for me, are the ones where the people flat-out lie. I had one in Queens where I gave them a couple hundred thousand dollars and they started spending it on themselves.

Don't engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad.