The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left.

—David M. Ogilvy

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

—David M. Ogilvy

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

—George Bernard Shaw

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

—Kurt Vonnegut

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

—Thornton Wilder

A joke's a very serious thing.

—Charles Churchill

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

—Dame Edna Everage