Can I Quote You?

I don’t think people or agencies should quote notable advertising people—like Bernbach or Ogilvy—if they don’t at least take a stab at abiding by their standards of work, or how people are treated or the ethics of business those two men believed in. You shouldn’t cite someone’s words but ignore their intent. I recoil when I see Ogilvy, the entity, co-opting the words of their founder when there’s…