David Mackenzie Ogilvy CBE was an advertising tycoon, founder of Ogilvy & Mather, and known as the father of advertising. Wikipedia Born : June 23, 1911, West Horsley, United Kingdom Died : July 21, 1999, Château de Touffou, France Children : 1 Parents : Francis John Longley Ogilvy , Dorothy Blow Fairfield Quotes The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. “If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.” ―from OGILVY ON ADVERTISING by David Ogilvy A candid and indispensable pr...