I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I learned to do the same. Kids always observe their parents and I always watched my daddy.

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.

Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

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

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Because I'm in advertising, not electricity!

All religions are both harmful and untrue.

You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

My specialty is sleeping and my hobby is also sleeping.

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

Being spontaneous, it's what saved me.

I was put here to sing.