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I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.
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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.
Jerry Della Femina
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With all my outside activities, I have to remind people I am really in advertising.
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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.
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There's something that goes on in a new-business meeting that's wonderful to watch. It's like showtime. There are people who are nervous, and there are people who are jittery, and there's so much drama and so much at stake.
Jerry Della Femina -
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
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Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family.
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Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
Jerry Della Femina
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My first marriage ended after 24 years.
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'Mad Men' is celebrating a time that no longer exists.
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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.
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The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.
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You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
Jerry Della Femina -
No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.
Jerry Della Femina
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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.
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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.
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A computer is a wonderful thing, but it's cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold.
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I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.
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Most account guys live with fear in their hearts.
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Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.
Jerry Della Femina
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If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed.
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I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
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I've never met a client who wants to be the worst.
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Sad to say, negative advertising really works.
Jerry Della Femina