#89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

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 to board at 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 That he is right. And the books are wrong. But this perhaps is further proof of his originality.

At the age of thirteen, I went to a Scottish school whose Spartan Disciplines had been established by my great uncle. I went to college at Oxford. But I was too preoccupied to do any work and was duly expelled. That was in nineteen thirty one.

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