… In many cases I suspect the answer is “not very much” The bigger the business and the posher the titles the more drones you’ll have hanging about After I sold my business to Ogilvy and Mather the great man …
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A voice from the past: Mother Teresa, David Ogilvy – and me
I am the most disorganised, forgetful, dozy person you could ever fear to meet – as a shocked glance at my desk would reveal. But I always take comfort from a sign Bill Phillips, one of my old bosses, had …
Read More“Make money while you sleep” – and other half-truths
If you can’t steal from your relatives, who can you steal from? “Originality is the most dangerous sin in the advertiser’s lexicon,” said Rosser Reeves, and – taking him at his word his brother in law David Ogilvy happily quoted …
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