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Quotes from Jay Chiat

If you can't be bothered to work on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.
~ Jay Chiat
You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.
~ Jay Chiat
In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.
~ Jay Chiat
Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.
~ Jay Chiat
Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.
~ Jay Chiat
We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.
~ Jay Chiat
Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.
~ Jay Chiat