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.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

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.

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.

By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.

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.

Every automobile ad looks alike.

Everybody makes a lot of money when the French come to town.

Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

I always had more women working for me than men.

I am a temporary amusement.

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

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.

I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the 'Mad Men' television series without moving a desk.

I couldn't get along with the French.

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.

I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s.

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.

I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.

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.

I have very talented art directors in my agency who start out telling me, 'Well, this is what the picture is... ' I ask, 'Well, what's the headline?' and they say, 'We haven't done that yet, but it looks this way.' But I'm still writing copy, almost every day.

I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.

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.

I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.

I think people are getting bored of parties, and hosts are terrified nobody's going to show up. So they have to start entertaining them before the party even starts.

I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.

I'm a driver, and I love it.

I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.'

I've never met a client who wants to be the worst.

I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.

If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.

If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed.

If they can't suck money out of the Hamptons, a candidate really has to throw in the sponge.

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.

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.

In my world - advertising - the Super Bowl is judgment day. If politicians have Election Day and Hollywood has the Oscars, advertising has the Super Bowl.

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.

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.

It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.

Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.

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.