Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.

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!

If you really want to do something, you will.If not now, Eventually.

Believe not in the reality, but believe in the possibility.

When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!