'Mad Men': Will Don Draper become David Ogilvy?

I, like you, am intrigued by the interview Matthew Weiner gave to Grantland in which he said Don Draper -- Jon Hamm -- will end this historic TV journey as an 84-year-old. The pullquote has gotten a great deal of attention, and here it is again:

What sort of intrigues me is this question -- will Don turn into sort of an elder statesman who exudes the wisdom of the ages in the selling game, or will he become a bitter, washed up has-been with an attenuated liver and a box full of war stories that no one wants to hear?

Obviously this could go either way, but let's take the positive route and suggest that Don turns into David Ogilvy, or an approximation of him. David Ogilvy: You know the name, of course. He was the British-born adman who probably became the only household name (with the possibly other exception of Mary Wells) from the ranks of the ad industry. His conquests were fabled -- he died in 1999 at age 88 -- and I suppose the most famous Ogilvy line was "Don't Leave Home without It." 

But -- and don't hesitate to correct me on this -- I think he was better-known as the big-think kind of advertiser, and less a writer of copy. His pronouncements about the art of advertising endure, but he ended up living this fabled larger-than-life life, at a villa in France, his great wealth intact. 

Is this where Don is headed? I'm not sure, but listen to some of these Ogilvy quotes and see if you don't think they could've come from the brain of Draper: