David Ogilvy Portrait

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

— David Ogilvy

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

— David Ogilvy

About this quote

From Ogilvy on Advertising (1983), Chapter 1. Ogilvy was urging creative people not to set modest, achievable targets but to aim for work that would endure alongside the greatest advertising ever made. He frequently named campaigns and copywriters he considered immortal as reference points, and used this aspirational standard to push his teams beyond technically competent work toward genuinely memorable work.

Source

Ogilvy on Advertising, Chapter 1 (1983)