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As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
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Thank you for making me nouveau riche.
Jerry Della Femina
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Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.
Jerry Della Femina -
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.
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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.
Jerry Della Femina -
It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.
Jerry Della Femina -
Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can't they get married in February?
Jerry Della Femina -
People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.
Jerry Della Femina
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I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.
Jerry Della Femina -
What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.
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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.
Jerry Della Femina -
If they can't suck money out of the Hamptons, a candidate really has to throw in the sponge.
Jerry Della Femina -
I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s.
Jerry Della Femina -
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.
Jerry Della Femina
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Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.
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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.
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I always had more women working for me than men.
Jerry Della Femina -
Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.
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If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.
Jerry Della Femina -
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.
Jerry Della Femina
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I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women.
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The Democrats are going the way of Burma Shave and Crisco - products everyone loved and had in their homes. But they got old. They didn't have anything new to say about the product, and after awhile, they died.
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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.
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People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.
Jerry Della Femina