Hiring is everything. If you have terrific people the…

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or…

— William Bernbach

I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work…

— Tom Verlaine

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

— James Adams

That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a dozen in…

— Phil Dusenberry

Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide…

— Kevin Roberts

There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be…

— George Arthur French

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

— William Bernbach

What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.

— Daniel Lyons

In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

— Phil Dusenberry

It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

— Patrick Collison

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

— Frank Farrington

Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

— Madonna Ciccone

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

— Herb Pomeroy