Famous Quotes

"I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive."

David Ogilvy on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by David Ogilvy

• "The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."

• "I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."

• "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."

• "Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."

• "The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife."