Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form.

Don't let anyone dictate what you should and shouldn't wear. Do what you want. Who cares?

To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

You were right,” she said. “You were always right, about everything. And I will always love you, Sam. Forever.

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.

I believe over the long term he's going to have the money, and he's got the message, that this is going to be one of the finalists for the presidential campaign.