Businessman

Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.

Good products win out.

I don't want people ever to think I'm not in advertising. It's such a business of enthusiasm that if you're not totally excited about it, you should leave it.

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

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

I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the 'Mad Men' television series without moving a desk.

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

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

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

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

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

I am a temporary amusement.

'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.

People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.

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

I couldn't get along with the French.

On the weekends, some people garden; I slice salmon.

Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.

There's still a place for someone to come up with a strong headline, some copy in a commercial that's well written. I'm not saying it was better in the old days; it's just a totally different way of communicating.

The Google model of targeted advertising is appealing because it claims to cut down on waste. We need to ask how that efficiency can be brought to creative process.