Jerry Della Femina Quotes
Top 78 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can't they get married in February?
I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.
No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out.
I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.
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.
As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.
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.
The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.
I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women.
People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.
No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.
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.
I'm hard-nosed about luck ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
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.