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I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.
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Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can't they get married in February?
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With all my outside activities, I have to remind people I am really in advertising.
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You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
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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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There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.
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What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.
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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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Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family.
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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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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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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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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.
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I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
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My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house.
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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.
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The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.
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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.
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The Google model of targeted advertising is appealing because it claims to cut down on waste. We need to ask how that efficiency can be brought to creative process.
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Money is being wasted on adverts that go right over a consumer's head. They may win awards at Cannes, but they lose at the cash register.
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It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.
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Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.
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People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.
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No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out.
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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.
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Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
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Most of the people in advertising now - mention Bill Bernbach to them, they don't know.
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Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.
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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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