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I want to die at my desk.
I am a temporary amusement.
I'm a driver, and I love it.
Every automobile ad looks alike.
My day is spent hiding from people.
Thank you for making me nouveau riche.
My first marriage ended after 24 years.
Because I'm in advertising, not electricity!
Sad to say, negative advertising really works.
Most account guys live with fear in their hearts.
I've never met a client who wants to be the worst.
'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.
On the weekends, some people garden; I slice salmon.
I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.
There are no client conflicts, only bad explanations.
The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
'Mad Men' is celebrating a time that no longer exists.
Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.
Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.
The fact is, Joe Isuzu is very successful at selling cars.
If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed.
People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.
Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.
A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.
I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.
Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.
The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.
Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'
I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.
There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.
The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.
If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.
I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.
Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.
With all my outside activities, I have to remind people I am really in advertising.
Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
Most of the people in advertising now - mention Bill Bernbach to them, they don't know.
Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.
I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.
A computer is a wonderful thing, but it's cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold.
Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family.
The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.
If they can't suck money out of the Hamptons, a candidate really has to throw in the sponge.
Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can't they get married in February?
What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.