David Droga Quotes
One day, when I have advertising out of my system, I want to be Prime Minister of Australia.
Burrell, Ian. "David Droga: The adman who wants to rule the world." The Independent, 15 May 2006.
When Disraeli first entered politics and tried to run for Parliament the notion that he would ever become Prime Minister was very unrealistic to everyone except Disraeli. In addition to no political experience at the time, he came from a Jewish background at a time when anti-Semitism was very common and acceptable to England. Even if he were not inexperienced and Jewish, he was not part of the British aristocracy and was not socially connected. He also had no large business and industrial connections and no important family connections. However, he was a marvelous writer and speaker, a very fast learner, and turned out to be a political natural. Most historians rate him as one of the two or three greatest British Prime Ministers.
Many people think that running a corporation is good training and demonstrates the ability to run the country. However, business leaders who have come into government, almost all like Breton, think the two are very different.
See {642231} for has additional views on German leadership. Many serious Germans agreed, but the culture, concept of patriotism, and the laws did not encourage open discussion of negative things about the nation so the problem remained.
David Droga (b. 1968) is an Australian advertising executive and the founder and chairman of Droga5, an advertising agency headquartered in New York City with an office in London.
