I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Jerry Della Femina
Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.
On the weekends, some people garden; I slice salmon.
Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.
I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.
I don't want people ever to think I'm not in advertising. It's such a business of enthusiasm that if you're not totally excited about it, you should leave it.
The fact is, Joe Isuzu is very successful at selling cars.
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.
Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.
The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.
Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'
I want to die at my desk.
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
If you look at 'Mad Men,' it's set in the wrong decade. The style of Mad Men is really the 1950s, not the 1960s.
I couldn't get along with the French.
I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.
Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.
Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.
I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.
There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing.
The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.
Good products win out.
Once you're not No. 1, it doesn't matter where you are.
I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.
The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.
No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.
In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.
At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing.
If they can't suck money out of the Hamptons, a candidate really has to throw in the sponge.
There's still a place for someone to come up with a strong headline, some copy in a commercial that's well written. I'm not saying it was better in the old days; it's just a totally different way of communicating.
A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.
Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
Everybody makes a lot of money when the French come to town.
Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.
The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.
I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.'
Thank you for making me nouveau riche.
It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.
I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.
Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.
In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.
I don't like to work for politicians because I hate to work on anything that you can't give back if it doesn't work. I sell products. I do a commercial for, say, Meow Mix, and you don't like it, you get your money back. You can return it. Politicians, you can't return. You're with them for four more years. And that's scary.
Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.
I ran for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were four people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food market - they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an interesting to do.
If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.
