Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

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

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

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.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

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

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

The fact is, Joe Isuzu is very successful at selling cars.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

Good products win out.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

Once you're not No. 1, it doesn't matter where you are.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

If they can't suck money out of the Hamptons, a candidate really has to throw in the sponge.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

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.

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

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

Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.