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I'm forcing more men into my company to get more sexual tension into the business... I love the buzz and... sexuality of verbal foreplay.

Marketing (1989)
We have our values from the Church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

Interview, Marketing Week (2000)
If companies are in business solely to make money, you can't fully trust whatever else they do or say... The whole sense of fun is lost, the whole sense of play, of derring-do.

Body and Soul (1991)
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by 'feminine' principles � qualities like love and care and intuition.

Body and Soul (1991)
Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.

Body and Soul (1991)
Today's corporations have global responsibilities because their decisions affect world problems concerning economics, poverty, security and the environment.

Body and Soul (1991)
I want all our people to believe they are working for the best agency in the world. A sense of pride works wonders.

Principles of Management (1968)
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.

Ogilvy on Advertising (1983)
In the best institutions, promises are kept, no matter what the cost in agony and overtime.

Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963)
The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.

Quoted in Intellectual Capital (1997)
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