We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in & be what people are interested in.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it’s an ad.

The only people who care about advertising are the people who work in advertising.

By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

If dogs don’t like your dog food, the packaging doesn’t matter.

Don’t find customers for your product. Find products for your customers.

Give them quality. That’s the best kind of advertising.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at.

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it well enough yourself.

If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don’t go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

Curiosity about life, in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.

Creativity without strategy is called art, creative with strategy is called advertising.

An idea can turn to magic or dust, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

I don’t know the rules of grammar… If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it’s surfaced through friends and people they know and trust.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

People spend money when and where they feel good.

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.

Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.

Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.

I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

Fasting cleanses the soul raises the mind subjects ones flesh to the spirit renders the heart contrite and humble scatters the clouds of concupiscence quenches the fire of lust and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.

Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.

They are many wounded hearts here. Many Some admit. Others the stubborn ones scribble poetry instead.

The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of the Government, but in the Constitution of the United States.

Even though the third season of 'Necessary Roughness' was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.

Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.

Its always consoling to know that todays Christmas gifts are tomorrows garage sales.

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure.

The only competition that matters the most in life is the one between you and your old self.