Confessions of an Advertising Man [Paperback]

Ogilvy is the creative force of modern advertising. --New York Times

His books, notably the million-selling Confessions of an Advertising Man, are still fresh - full of pithy points about not only advertising but also business. --London Evening Standard

Prescriptive guide to the art of good advertising by the old king of Madison Avenue --Independent

...today's generation of advertisers find much to agree with in his seminal memoir, Confessions of an Advertising Man. Indeed, many agencies - and not just his - still trade off the principles he established. --Telegraph

...a must-read for anyone in business - and particularly marketing and PR. --5W Public Relations

Confessions of an Advertising Man is the distillation of all the successful Ogilvy concepts, tactics and techniques that made this book an international bestseller. Regarded as the father of modern advertising, David Ogilvy created some of the most memorable advertising campaigns that set the standard for others to follow. Anyone aspiring to be a good manager in any kind of business should read this.

David Ogilvy was born in West Horsley, England in 1911 and was the youngest of five children of a Scottish stockbroker. He was educated in Edinburgh and then at Oxford, but was thrown out before he completed his degree. This he said was the real failure in his life. He then worked in the kitchen of the Hotel Majestic in Paris and was a door-to-door salesman for AGA Cookers in Britain before emigrating to the US in 1938. At the age of 37, he founded his New York based agency, which later merged to form an international company now known as Ogilvy & Mather. It employs 10,000 people in 90 countries.