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Founders: #89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

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[00:00:00] My mother was a beautiful and eccentric Irish woman. She disinherited me on the ground that I was likely to acquire more money than was good for me without any help from her. I could not disagree. At the age of nine, I was sent aboard in an aristocratic school in Eastbourne. The headmaster wrote of me, He has a distinctly original mind, inclined to argue with his teachers and to try and convince them that he is right and the books are wrong. But this, perhaps, is further proof of his originality. At the age of 13, I went to a Scottish school whose Spartan disciplines had been…

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