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I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s.
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'Mad Men' is celebrating a time that no longer exists.
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My first marriage ended after 24 years.
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I've never met a client who wants to be the worst.
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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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Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
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There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.
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Thank you for making me nouveau riche.
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The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.
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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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With all my outside activities, I have to remind people I am really in advertising.
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Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'
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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.
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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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'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.
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I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.
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I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.
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Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.
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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'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.
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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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Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.
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Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.
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I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
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Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.
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I always had more women working for me than men.
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There are no client conflicts, only bad explanations.
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I am a temporary amusement.
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If they can't suck money out of the Hamptons, a candidate really has to throw in the sponge.
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Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.
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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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As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
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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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The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.
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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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Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.
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If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed.
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Sad to say, negative advertising really works.
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Good products win out.
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The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.
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A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.
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Most account guys live with fear in their hearts.
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Because I'm in advertising, not electricity!
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Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
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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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There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing.
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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 want to die at my desk.
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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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On the weekends, some people garden; I slice salmon.
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My day is spent hiding from people.
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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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The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.
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I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.
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Everybody makes a lot of money when the French come to town.
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Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.
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Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.
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I couldn't get along with the French.
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No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.
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The fact is, Joe Isuzu is very successful at selling cars.
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People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.
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If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.
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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'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.
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The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.
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I'm a driver, and I love it.
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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.
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I'm hard-nosed about luck ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
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You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
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I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
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A guy's reputation is the first thing you hear about
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It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
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Most of the people in advertising now - mention Bill Bernbach to them, they don't know.
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Once you're not No. 1, it doesn't matter where you are.
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The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.
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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.
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