I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor

Invaluable advice from the 'Father of Advertising'

David Ogilvy. Photo: Getty.

British-born David Ogilvy was one of the original, and greatest, “ad men.” In 1948, he started what would eventually be known as Ogilvy & Mather, the Manhattan-based advertising agency that has since been responsible for some of the world’s most iconic ad campaigns, and in 1963 he even wrote Confessions of an Advertising Man, …