Quotes from Jerry Della Femina

I want to die at my desk.

It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed.

I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.

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

There are no client conflicts, only bad explanations.

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

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

I am a temporary amusement.

I think people are getting bored of parties, and hosts are terrified nobody's going to show up. So they have to start entertaining them before the party even starts.

People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.

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

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

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

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

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'

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

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

Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.

A computer is a wonderful thing, but it's cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold.

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

Most account guys live with fear in their hearts.