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I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s. — Jerry Della Femina

'Mad Men' is celebrating a time that no longer exists. — Jerry Della Femina

My first marriage ended after 24 years. — Jerry Della Femina

I've never met a client who wants to be the worst. — 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

Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money. — Jerry Della Femina

There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person. — Jerry Della Femina

Thank you for making me nouveau riche. — Jerry Della Femina

The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling. — Jerry Della Femina

I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words. — Jerry Della Femina

With all my outside activities, I have to remind people I am really in advertising. — Jerry Della Femina

Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.' — Jerry Della Femina

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused. — Jerry Della Femina

No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out. — Jerry Della Femina

'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting. — Jerry Della Femina

I was the first advertising person who people could identify with. — Jerry Della Femina

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast. — Jerry Della Femina

Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones. — Jerry Della Femina

A computer is a wonderful thing, but it's cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold. — Jerry Della Femina

I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore. — Jerry Della Femina

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money. — Jerry Della Femina

Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies. — Jerry Della Femina

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question. — Jerry Della Femina

I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business. — Jerry Della Femina

Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct. — Jerry Della Femina

I always had more women working for me than men. — Jerry Della Femina

There are no client conflicts, only bad explanations. — Jerry Della Femina

I am a temporary amusement. — 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

Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. — Jerry Della Femina

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. — Jerry Della Femina

As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched. — 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

The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn. — Jerry Della Femina

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. — Jerry Della Femina

Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial. — Jerry Della Femina

If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed. — Jerry Della Femina

Sad to say, negative advertising really works. — Jerry Della Femina

Good products win out. — Jerry Della Femina

The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy. — Jerry Della Femina

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel. — Jerry Della Femina

Most account guys live with fear in their hearts. — Jerry Della Femina

Because I'm in advertising, not electricity! — Jerry Della Femina

Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war. — 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. — Jerry Della Femina

There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing. — Jerry Della Femina

What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions. — Jerry Della Femina

I want to die at my desk. — Jerry Della Femina

I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women. — Jerry Della Femina

On the weekends, some people garden; I slice salmon. — Jerry Della Femina

My day is spent hiding from people. — 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

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean. — Jerry Della Femina

I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people. — Jerry Della Femina

Everybody makes a lot of money when the French come to town. — Jerry Della Femina

Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it. — Jerry Della Femina

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included. — Jerry Della Femina

I couldn't get along with the French. — 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

The fact is, Joe Isuzu is very successful at selling cars. — Jerry Della Femina

People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand. — Jerry Della Femina

If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away. — Jerry Della Femina

Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family. — Jerry Della Femina

I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now. — Jerry Della Femina

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth. — Jerry Della Femina

I'm a driver, and I love it. — Jerry Della Femina

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

I'm hard-nosed about luck ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune. — Jerry Della Femina

You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes. — Jerry Della Femina

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. — Jerry Della Femina

A guy's reputation is the first thing you hear about — Jerry Della Femina

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar. — Jerry Della Femina

Most of the people in advertising now - mention Bill Bernbach to them, they don't know. — Jerry Della Femina

Once you're not No. 1, it doesn't matter where you are. — Jerry Della Femina

The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday. — Jerry Della Femina

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

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education. — Jerry Della Femina

I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.' — Jerry Della Femina